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https://github.com/pmalek/ethminer_watchdog
Run a watchdog on top of ethminer
https://github.com/pmalek/ethminer_watchdog
ethereum ethminer linux mining
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Run a watchdog on top of ethminer
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/pmalek/ethminer_watchdog
- Owner: pmalek
- License: gpl-3.0
- Created: 2021-01-12T19:17:09.000Z (almost 4 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2022-04-17T10:24:01.000Z (over 2 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-05-02T05:26:31.967Z (8 months ago)
- Topics: ethereum, ethminer, linux, mining
- Language: Shell
- Homepage:
- Size: 674 KB
- Stars: 5
- Watchers: 3
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Funding: .github/FUNDING.yml
- License: LICENSE
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README
# ethminer_watchdog
Run a watchdog on top of [`ethminer`](https://github.com/ethereum-mining/ethminer/)
## What is this?
For a long time I was experimenting with some kind of a watchdog that would
restart my miners during internet outages, connection timeouts etc.
After some time I've ended up with this script has worked well for me now for
couple of months already.
## How to run
### From the terminal
```
./ethminer_watchdog.sh
```
Required environment variables to set:
- `ETHMINER` - path to ethminer binary; default: `ethminer`
- `ETHMINER_POOL_URL` - pool URL to use
### As a `systemd` service
In order to run ethminer_watchdog as a `systemd` service you can use the following systemd unit file:
```systemd
[Unit]
Description=Ethminer systemd unit
[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=
User=
Environment=FAN_SPEED=66
Environment=POWER_LIMIT=95
Environment=ETHMINER=
Environment=ETHMINER_POOL_URL=
RestartSec=10
Restart=on-failure
ProtectSystem=strict
ProtectHome=read-only
PrivateTmp=true
TasksMax=16
[Install]
WantedBy=default.target
```
You can run it as a `system` service by placing the above snippet in e.g. `/etc/systemd/system/ethminer.service`, reloading the `systemd` daemon:
```shell
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
```
and simply starting the service:
```shell
sudo systemctl start ethminer.service
```
Logs are available via `journalctl`:
```
journalctl --unit=ethminer.service --follow --lines 100
```
## Limitations
- For now it runs only on Linux with `gdm` as display manager
(mostly because of `nvidia-settings` behavior)