Mining NKN with Linux
📌 This guide will help you to install a NKN node using Linux.
Requirements
| Spec | Requirement |
|---|---|
| Operating system | Ubuntu is recommended (works perfectly with Debian) |
| Memory | 1GB |
| CPU | Most of them works (AMD, ARM, MIPS,...) |
| Internet connection speed | 10Mbps up and down is a minimum |
| Internet usage | The amount of data used per month can be as high as multiple TB per month |
| IP address | 1 IP version 4 (IPv4) is require per node. There is no way (and it would make no sense) to run multiple node on a single IP. IPv6 is not available. |
| Port forwarding | You need to be able to reach the TCP/UDP ports 30001-30021. Optionally the TCP ports 30022-65535 for NKN Commercial services like nConnect. See our page about port forwarding |
Disk space
Since version 2.1.7 NKN offers you 2 options regarding disk space. You can decide to build a full node or a light node.
A full node is a node with the entire history of transactions. This node use more disk space (17/22GB in Oct 2021) but contain the entire ledger and all the blocks transactions are available through its JSON RPC API.
A light node is a node containing only sync headers of old blocks without transactions. This node use less disk space (3GB in Oct 2021) but is not be able to respond to getblock and gettransaction RPC requests for old blocks/transactions.
By default node are installed in "full mode". If you want to switch your node to "light mode" you need to modify the new "SyncMode" parameter of your config.json file.
If you were running a node before 2.1.7 and want to switch from full mode to light mode it is possible!
- Stop your NKN node
- Delete the ChainDB folder
- Modify your config.json file, add "SyncMode" : "light" inside the json content.
- Start your NKN node
Your node should start to synchronise with the network from 0 but reach the current block within a short period of time.
Before you start
Please be sure to check all the following points
- [ ] I have 10.1NKN mainnet tokens (or I'm ready to buy them)
- [ ] My server is connected to internet
- [ ] I have setup my port forwarding
It's now time to ask yourself an important question: are you confident with the concepts of console, SSH, bash ?
- If your are not confident with the console, SSH and those concepts, you can Install your NKN node using auto deployment methods.
- If you are even a little confident with the console, SSH and those concepts, you can Easily deploy your NKN node by yourself!
Debug
Here is a cheatsheet of commands helping you to debug and understand better your node.
Find and reach your node install directory
cd "$(find / -type d -name "nkn-node" 2>/dev/null)"
Verify your node service status
systemctl status nkn-commercial.service
Start your node
systemctl stop nkn-commercial.service
Stop your node
systemctl start nkn-commercial.service
Check on your node last logs
journalctl -u nkn-commercial.service
The following commands needs to be entered inside your node install directory
Display your node status information
./nknc info -s
Display your node log in real time
tail -f nkn-node.log
Uninstall
Switch to root user if not root yet
sudo su -
Run the following command
/home/nkn/nkn-commercial/nkn-commercial uninstall
