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Running geth --exec starts an interpreter. It allows to run geth console commands. I want to load a javascript function that runs continuously in background in geth. It basically continuously looks for pending transactions and if found, it mines them else doesn't mine continuously (empty blocks unnecessarily).

Currently, I have to manually mine every time and stop mining.

geth --jspath "/root/files/js" --exec 'eth.mining;loadScript("mine_pending_transactions.js");eth.mining;' --datadir=/root/.ethereum/devchain attach

However, I don't want to mine this manually. In order to automate this, I want to load the script and mine it, as if it's a something like background command that runs in the geth console interpreter.

but I learnt from this Stack-overflow post - (Executing custom javascript snippets through non-interactive console) that one needs to access the same interpreter.

Is there a way to do that? Even in case of non-interactive console? Couldn't find anything on official Ethereum documentation.

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  • Did you consider to use geth <all you option> js JS_SCRIPT_FILE?. In the help message it is reported js Execute the specified JavaScript files . You can write a Javascript file that run continuosly in background. I use a javascript file to create continuosly new transactions every x milliseconds. So you can securely achieve what you are looking for.
    – Briomkez
    Jul 25, 2018 at 21:33
  • What's <all you option> ? I'm sorry I didn't get that.
    – Chaitanya Bapat
    Jul 25, 2018 at 21:34
  • In your case you need only geth js javascript_file but in general you can also specify some options, such as datadir etc.
    – Briomkez
    Jul 25, 2018 at 21:36
  • Mine is a private geth version. Probably that's why when i run geth js mine_pending_transactions.js as you mentioned, I get an error - listen udp :30303: bind: address already in use. Hence I tried to mention the datadir where my existing ethereum is in place geth --jspath "/root/files/js" --datadir=/root/.ethereum/devchain js mine_pending_transactions.js . But now it returns datadir already used by another process
    – Chaitanya Bapat
    Jul 25, 2018 at 21:45
  • This problem is related to the fact that there exist already a geth instance that is using the datadir or the port. You have either to stop the existing instance or to start the instance in another datadir AND with a different port.
    – Briomkez
    Jul 25, 2018 at 21:47

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