I have bitcoind installed on my VPS runing Ubuntu 18.04, and I want to configure it to launch bitcoind on startup.
What the best way to do so with my configuration ?
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1There’s a suitable systemd configuration for bitcoind in the contrib directory.– ClarisNov 23, 2019 at 20:22
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Wanted to close this question but finally posted an answer as i could not fine a decent motivation (aside from "there is a major troll as the only answer" :p). Will also edit for clarity.– Antoine PoinsotAug 20, 2020 at 8:49
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To start bitcoind at startup on a system using systemd, use the service configuration provided in contrib/init/ from the root of the bitcoin-core repository.
You can then manage bitcoind as any other systemd service (and possibly have some other rely on it, such as a Lightning Network implementation's service).
systemctl start bitcoind
systemctl stop bitcoind
# This enables launching the service at startup
systemctl enable bitcoind
answered Aug 20, 2020 at 8:48
You could add a cron program that runs on startup, creates a temp file to say it has already ran, and then execute. This makes it so that every time cron tries to run the program, it turns out empty.
Example:
touch /tmp/btc.true
[ ! -f /tmp/btc.true ] && sudo -u $USER sh -c 'HOME=~$USER; bitcoind -daemon'
exit 0
