Little update to make it easy
wget https://www.dropbox.com/s/s48kmdpju87w5is/steemd.sh?dl=0
sh steemd.sh
then edit steemd_bin/witness_node_data_dir/config.ini
Runs fine on 5usd vps
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wget https://www.dropbox.com/s/n8g95gfex6wi48o/steemd_bin.zip?dl=0
unzip steemd_bin.zip
cd steemd_bin
edit config.ini
sh steemd.sh
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#!/bin/bash
sudo apt-get -y upgrade && sudo apt-get -y install git cmake g++ autotools-dev libicu-dev build-essential libbz2-dev libboost-all-dev libssl-dev libncurses5-dev doxygen libreadline-dev dh-autoreconf screen
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile count=2048 bs=1M
ls / | grep swapfile
sudo chmod 600 /swapfile
sudo ls -lh /swapfile
sudo mkswap /swapfile
sudo swapon /swapfile
sudo echo "/swapfile none swap sw 0 0" | sudo tee -a /etc/fstab
chmod +x steemd
chmod +x cli_wallet
wget http://www.steemitup.eu/witness_node_data_dir.tar.gz
tar -zxvf witness_node_data_dir.tar.gz
cp config.ini witness_node_data_dir
screen -dmS steemd ./steemd --replay 2> debug.log 1> error.log
screen -r steemd
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So I read the code in your shell script and didn't end up running it because I didn't understand a lot of what it was saying. I still grabbed your binaries though :). I'm just curious if you could explain what the lines about swapspace are doing. I'm obviously not a linux ninja :)
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