Running-rai_node-as-a-service.md

• See this GitHub gist for a tutorial on getting rai_node running on an Ubuntu EC2 instance.

To enable RPC for node edit config.json after first launch

./rai_node --daemon  
sed -i 's/"rpc_enable": "false"/"rpc_enable": "true"/g' ~/RaiBlocks/config.json   
sed -i 's/"enable_control": "false"/"enable_control": "true"/g' ~/RaiBlocks/config.json  

Launch rai_node in test mode

./rai_node --daemon

Check if RPC is enabled with curl (use different terminal or session)

curl -g -d '{ "action": "block_count" }' '[::1]:7076'

To stop node, use

curl -g -d '{ "action": "stop" }' '[::1]:7076'

Launch rai_node as a service with systemd

sudo touch /etc/systemd/system/rai_node.service   
sudo chmod 664 /etc/systemd/system/rai_node.service   
sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/rai_node.service   

Paste your specific user, group, path settings (example)

[Unit]
Description=RaiBlocks node service
After=network.target

[Service]
ExecStart=/path_to_rai_node/rai_node --daemon
Restart=on-failure
User=username
Group=groupname

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Start rai_node service

sudo service rai_node start

Enable at startup

sudo systemctl enable rai_node

To manage node, use RPC commands or CLI

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Known issues

Error initiating bootstrap ... Too many open files

Increase max open files limit. Edit /etc/security/limits.conf & add

    *               soft    nofile          65535    
    *               hard    nofile          65535    
    root            soft    nofile          65535    
    root            hard    nofile          65535    

Then restart session & rai_node service. Check changes with ulimit -n