bitcoind-watchdog

bitcoind-watchdog

NodeJS process designed to run on top of (ndt)[https://github.com/nullivex/ndt]

Installation

We assume you already have bitcoind installed and available on your system.

We also assume you already have node and npm installed and available.

Next we want daemontools to run ndt.

On Debian (adapt as neccessary)

$ apt-get install daemontools daemontools-run
$ ln -s /etc/service /service

Now we need ndt and bitcoind-watchdog

$ npm -g install ndt bitcoind-watchdog

Now we want ndt to use bitcoind watchdog or you can use it in the foreground

foreground

$ bitcoind-watchdog -i 300 //restart every 300 seconds 5 mins
<ctl + c to shutdown>

background

We need to setup ndt for this

$ mkdir /opt/bitcoind-watchdog
$ cd /opt/bitcoind-watchdog
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Make `/opt/bitcoind-watchdog/dt.json` like so

```json
{
  "name": "bitcoind-watchdog",
  "cwd": "/opt/bitcoind-watchdog",
  "user": "root",
  "command": "bitcoind-watchdog",
  "env": {
    "NODE_ENV": "production"
  },
  "log": {
    "user": "root",
    "command": "multilog s16777215 t /opt/bitcoind-watchdog/log"
  }
}

Now install it

$ cd /opt/bitcoind-watchdog
$ ndt install
$ ndt save

It should be running now see tail -f /opt/bitcoind-watchdog/log/current

This will now start on reboots and automatically watch and restart the process.

Changelog

0.1.0

• Initial Release