automatic restart tools (From BitSuperLab)

[Riverhead]

Also, maybe include a wallet_delegate_withdraw_pay since the pass phrase for the delegate is stored on the server in plain text.  Would be good to keep that wallet swept.

[emski]

Good work!

You might instead of using the second script to kill the bitshares_client just to use "quit" within the first script (after you make sure info command returns "wallet_next_block_production_time": "X minutes in the future", where X is large enough for you).

[maqifrnswa]

excellent, thank you!

[alt]

It would be nice if your script can  monitor connection number every 10minutes and alert with sendmail if connection drop to  less than 7

yes, we'll collect more information next step.

[sfinder]

It would be nice if your script can  monitor connection number every 10minutes and alert with sendmail if connection drop to  less than 7

[alt]

script needs to check "next block time" before restart. to be safe , "next block time" should be greater than 5 minutes

have updated at the 1  post
a python script will check this before kill the client

[sfinder]

script needs to check "next block time" before restart. to be safe , "next block time" should be greater than 5 minutes

[HackFisher]

 

[taoljj]

 

[alt]

for now, delegate will miss blocks after long time running.
BM suggest to restart client every day.
here is a method for automatic restart.
1. run wallet with this expect script, you should change "wallet_name" and "command line"
this script will start client automatic while it's quit.

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#!/usr/bin/expect -f

set timeout -1
set default_port 1776
set port $default_port

### change wallet_name here
set wallet_name "delegate"
send_user "wallet name is: $wallet_name\n"
send_user "wallet passphrase: "
stty -echo
expect_user -re "(.*)\n"
  stty echo
set wallet_pass $expect_out(1,string)

  proc run_wallet {} {
    global wallet_name wallet_pass default_port port
      ### change command line here
      spawn ./bitshares_client --data-dir=delegate --p2p-port $port --server --httpport 9989 --rpcuser user --rpcpassword pass

      expect -exact "(wallet closed) >>> "
      send -- "about\r"
      expect -exact "(wallet closed) >>> "
      send -- "wallet_open $wallet_name\r"
      expect -exact "$wallet_name (locked) >>> "
      send -- "wallet_unlock 99999999\r"
      expect -exact "passphrase: "
      send -- "$wallet_pass\r"
      expect -exact "$wallet_name (unlocked) >>> "
      send -- "wallet_delegate_set_block_production ALL true\r"
      expect -exact "$wallet_name (unlocked) >>> "
      send -- "info\r"
      expect -exact "$wallet_name (unlocked) >>> "
      send -- "wallet_list_my_accounts\r"
      interact
      wait

      if { $port == $default_port } {
        set port [expr $port+1]
      } else {
        set port [expr $port-1]
      }
  }

while true {
  run_wallet
}
2. kill the client every 24 hours.
call restart.py every 24 hours at crontab, this script will check next block generation timestamp, make sure there is enough time to restart client

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#!/usr/bin/python

import requests
import json
import time
import os

safetime = 120  # safe time, 120 seconds is safe to restart client
auth = ('user', 'pass') ## user/pass for rpc service
url = "http://localhost:9989/rpc"  ## rpc url

def main() :
    headers = {'content-type': 'application/json'}
    info = {
        "method": "get_info",
        "params": [],
        "jsonrpc": "2.0",
        "id": 1
    }

    while True:
        info_res = requests.post(url, data=json.dumps(info), headers=headers, auth=auth)
        info_json = json.loads(vars(info_res)["_content"])
        if not "result" in info_json:
            return
        block_production_timestamp = info_json["result"]["wallet_next_block_production_timestamp"]
        safe_timestamp = time.strftime("%Y%m%dT%H%M%S", time.localtime(time.time()+safetime))
        if block_production_timestamp > safe_timestamp :
            break;
        #print("wait...")
        time.sleep(10)
    #print("kill...")
    time.sleep(10) ## wait 10 second make sure it's broadcast out
    os.system("killall -9 bitshares_client");

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()
3. we'll provide more suitable tools to detect the missing block and restart automatic soon.