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Title: How-to for running Bitcoin on Linux sans GUI? Post by: ichi on July 12, 2010, 02:19:36 AM I've installed Bitcoin 0.3 on Ubuntu 10.04 Server x64. Is there how-to for interacting with Bitcoin via tty? Although I've found some info, it looks more like programming API than command line.
Title: Re: How-to for running Bitcoin on Linux sans GUI? Post by: sirius on July 12, 2010, 02:34:11 AM I've installed Bitcoin 0.3 on Ubuntu 10.04 Server x64. Is there how-to for interacting with Bitcoin via tty? Although I've found some info, it looks more like programming API than command line. The API commands listed in the wiki (http://www.bitcoin.org/wiki/doku.php?id=api) can be used from the command line also, like this: Code: ./bitcoind Bitcoind is the headless daemon binary supplied with the download packages. Title: Re: How-to for running Bitcoin on Linux sans GUI? Post by: ichi on July 12, 2010, 03:42:26 AM Thank you, sirius-m.
So far, I've mastered ... Code: ./bitcoind How do I get khash/s ??? I didn't see that in the wiki. Do I calculate it from difficulty? I vaguely recall seeing that, but not where. Title: Re: How-to for running Bitcoin on Linux sans GUI? Post by: theymos on July 12, 2010, 03:44:41 AM Search debug.log for "hashmeter".
Title: Re: How-to for running Bitcoin on Linux sans GUI? Post by: ichi on July 12, 2010, 05:05:59 AM Thank you, theymos.
Unfortunately, I can't find debug.log :-[ Perhaps I haven't actually installed Bitcoin. I'm just running bitcoind from /bitcoin-0.3.0/bin/64. Perhaps bitcoind isn't writing debug.log because /etc/bitcoin/ doesn't exist ??? Should I make /etc/bitcoin/ and copy the contents of /bitcoin-0.3.0/ there ??? Title: Re: How-to for running Bitcoin on Linux sans GUI? Post by: theymos on July 12, 2010, 05:36:43 AM It's in your datadir -- the same location as wallet.dat. You can specify datadir as a parameter: "bitcoind -datadir=/whatever", but I think it's probably used some default location.
Title: Re: How-to for running Bitcoin on Linux sans GUI? Post by: ichi on July 12, 2010, 08:29:11 AM Thanks again, theymos.
I found /home/[me]/.bitcoin/debug.log -- sort of, anyway (using find, I mean -- more below). Code: grep -i hashmeter /home/[me]/.bitcoin/debug.log ... tells me that I'm running at 2,470 khash/s. I'm happy with that. I'm still confused, however. When I navigate to /home/[me], I see no /.bitcoin there via ls. I've obviously forgotten what little I ever knew re bash scripting. How do I find where debug.log (and wallet.dat !!!) are actually (hatever that means) located ??? Title: Re: How-to for running Bitcoin on Linux sans GUI? Post by: asdfman on July 12, 2010, 08:49:43 AM it automatically "hides" any directory prefixed with "." so doing a ls wont show.. to make it show do a ls -a ~
then you will see .bitcoin just do a ls -latr ~/.bitcoin to see the other files in the dir Title: Re: How-to for running Bitcoin on Linux sans GUI? Post by: ichi on July 12, 2010, 11:09:54 AM Ah. Got it. Thank you, asdfman.
In case it's not obvious, it's been over ten years since I worked much with Unix. Title: Re: How-to for running Bitcoin on Linux sans GUI? Post by: Xunie on July 12, 2010, 11:12:53 AM I've written a wiki article about bitcoind here: http://www.bitcoin.org/wiki/doku.php?id=headless_client (http://www.bitcoin.org/wiki/doku.php?id=headless_client).
I suggest you read through the getting started article here: http://www.bitcoin.org/wiki/doku.php?id=getting_started (http://www.bitcoin.org/wiki/doku.php?id=getting_started) |