eth syncing of ethereum classic node in background

Question

I run ethereum classic node on an amazon ec2 instance. It seems to be running

./geth --fast
./geth --exec "eth.syncing" attach

{
  currentBlock: 735772,
  highestBlock: 5565504,
  knownStates: 0,
  pulledStates: 0,
  startingBlock: 735504
}

• Should I always start my node with --fast to enable sync ?
• how can i leave the ethereum classic node to sync fully from a terminal. It seems to stop when I close terminal. I want it to run in the background. Is that possible ?

Answer 1

You can run geth as a systemd service or have it running in the background with screen or tmux

Answer 2

I'm running ETC Classic node on background on Digital Ocean, and it doesn't stop when i close terminal with this command: sudo bash -c 'setsid ./geth --data-dir ../../mnt/volume_sfo2_01/.ethereum-classic --cache 2054 --max-peers 250 --rpccorsdomain "*" --rpcaddr '0.0.0.0' --rpc --rpc-api 'eth,net,web3' &'

I'm amateur and Ubuntu is still new to me but will try to explain what I can, so please anyone correct me if I say something wrong, will glad to learn.

sudo - I use to run geth as far as all data files moved to attached storage (will explain that latter)

sudo bash -c - Is command that requires sudo permission accessing write to attached storage in particular

sestid and & at the end of command needed to run geth on the background and not showing a log of it to STDOUT

./geth - Exctial geth start. I have downloaded geth from official repo as tar or zip file don't remember and unzipped to the same directory. Still can't figure out how to make it as a global command.

--data-dir - The package I choose when launched new droplet on DO was not enough and I added attached storage 200Gb as of Aug 15, 2018, full node takes 155Gb just FY and moved ./.ethereum-classic folder to storage.

--cache 2054 - Just increase the size of memory geth uses.

--max-peers 250 - Hopped to increase sync speed, more peers more speed ?.

-rpccorsdomain "*" --rpcaddr '0.0.0.0' - To access node from anywhere.

--rpc --rpc-api 'eth,net,web3' -Enable RPC server.

I still need to figure out how to set up https connection to the node for more secure interaction.

Answering your question try to run setsid ./geth &

Answer 3

if you want to run with testnet ,so you can use this command ./geth --testnet --rpc otherwise by default it can run on mainnet.