bitcoin.exe -server does not work, will bitcoind.exe -server do the exact same??

[gigabytecoin]

So I have been having some problems with my bitcoin.exe suddenly.

I have a few miners setup running ubuntu 11.04 and I was running the bitcoin server off of my windows 7 64 bit machine (quite smoothly for almost a week straight) until earlier today when I started receiving error messages related to bitcoin.exe

My question is, if I run bitcoind.exe -server and connect my miners as usualy, will everything still work as expected? Am I wasting my time running bitcoind.exe for mining?

It has looked like this for the past few hours since I started running it:



My miners are showing hashes per second and not any "RPC Cannot connect" values... I just want some confirmation that they are indeed working?! Can you give me some reassurance, bitcoiners?!

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Open your task mangler and kill any extra running copies of bitcoind. If that fails, reboot your computer.

[gigabytecoin]

Open your task mangler and kill any extra running copies of bitcoind. If that fails, reboot your computer.

Whoa whoa whoa, wait a sec!?!

I only have one copy of bitcoind.exe running, I am just saying that is what my command line looks like. No error codes or messages whatsoever after 12 hours now... just want some clarification that it's even working properly!?

[BitterTea]

You don't need the -server argument when using bitcoind, as that is all bitcoind does. When you use server with bitcoin.exe, it enables JSON-RPC, which allows you to make all the same API calls while also using the GUI.

I don't understand why you executed bitcoind over and over and over again. Running it once starts the daemon which runs in the background.

[gigabytecoin]

You don't need the -server argument when using bitcoind, as that is all bitcoind does. When you use server with bitcoin.exe, it enables JSON-RPC, which allows you to make all the same API calls while also using the GUI.

I don't understand why you executed bitcoind over and over and over again. Running it once starts the daemon which runs in the background.

My apologies, please allow me to explain! I begain running it more than once because that command line became that way over the course of a few hours. Forgive me for not wiping it clean before I posted the screenshot

There is only one copy of bitcoind.exe running on my computer - all I wanted to know is if it is indeed working as a server - and if it does so by default, then I guess you answered my question BitterTea, +1 thanks!