Quote from: Shalafi on November 15, 2017, 01:01:57 PM

Quote from: lazy_boozer on November 15, 2017, 12:58:44 PM

Quote from: Shalafi on November 15, 2017, 12:57:06 PM

I got so fed up trying to fix up these issues I destroyed my server. For like the third time. No more trying...

I will now wait until someone provides an updated step by step guide for setting up the mn on a vps with sentinel. Since the issues are solved, I don't think I have to wait long.

Quote from: mninfo on November 15, 2017, 01:49:35 AM

Desire + Sentinel standalone (windows + linux)

You only need this if you are running a masternode and getting WATCHDOG_EXPIRED

This is a version of sentinel that requires nothing but to run an exe, make you to follow all steps! Backup "wallet.dat" first, just in case

Download: https://github.com/ZonnCash/sentinel/releases/tag/v1.1.0-win64
Virustotal (3/67): https://www.virustotal.com/es/file/3a65c0df1fb89607531d8c02bb2a3070f1c39f555944d118c67d8ee616be5b18/analysis/1510697796/

Use at your own risk, it has been compiled exactly as the Github repo says

Before running it

1. Make sure you are running v0.12.2.1

2. Close your wallet

3. Go to desirecore folder and delete "mncache.dat" and "mnpayments.dat"

4. Make sure your "desire.conf" contains, at least, the following data:
rpcuser=someuser
rpcpassword=somepass
server=1
rpcport=9918
rpcconnect=127.0.0.1

Try to make rcpuser and rpcpassword hard to guess, you won't need to remember/use them for anything else, so feel free to smash the keyboard

5. Open wallet. Resync the whole wallet, from the menu "Tools" > "Wallet Repair" > "Rebuild Index"

6. Make sure the wallet is running and completely synced before continuing

How to

To make it point to your desire.conf, you have three options:

A) Create a file sentinel.conf in the same folder as the EXE with the following content:
desire_conf=C:\path\to\desire.conf

Start sentinel-win64.exe

B) From a console, execute the EXE by passing arguments
sentinel-win64.exe --config=C:\path\to\desire.conf

C) By creating a shortcut

1) Right click the sentinel-win64.exe, "Create Shortcut".
2) Right click the shortcut, Properties
3) Edit Target and, at the end, add a SPACE and then "--config=C:\path\to\desire.conf" INCLUDING the quotes "

Double click the shortcut to start sentinel.

When everything fails
If you have followed all the steps and still get WATCHDOG_EXPIRED when issuing "masternode status":

1. Close the wallet

2. Delete all files inside "desireconf" except for "wallet.dat" and "desire.conf".
Please make sure you don't delete wallet.dat! Backup it, for real, that's your coins!

3. Restart wallet, open sentinel-win64.exe, and let it sync!

I mean a guide for setting up the entire masternode with these sentinel instruction integrated. FOR DUMMIES. I tried that, don't know how to run exes in linux etc. So fuck this. I'll get back to this when there are foolproof instructions. Thank you.

Members of our community have simplified everything, for ordinary users, having done a great job! Thank them for that. If you do not understand, then refer to hosting MN, everything is simple there!
And the simplest for you, do not invest in something you do not understand.