Re: GekkoScience 2Pac BM1384 Stickminer Official Support Thread

Yes, ^M is interpreted by screen to send a (Cr) into the terminal.

The remaining piece:

forever run cgminer with a restart every 4 hours.

second terminal

Code:

while [ true ]; do
timeout 4h /home/pi/git/vthoang/cgminer/cgminer --gekko-2pac-freq 180 -o stratum+tcp://bch.viabtc.com:3333 -u usaminer.2 -p 1 --suggest-diff 64
sleep 5
done

finishing it up:

runtask.sh

Code:

#!/bin/bash
screen_name=miner1

if [[ `screen -ls | grep $screen_name | wc -l` -eq 0 ]]; then
screen -dmS $screen_name
fi

screen -S $screen_name -X stuff ^C^C^C

screen -S $screen_name -X stuff "
while [ true ]; do
timeout 4h /home/pi/git/vthoang/cgminer/cgminer --gekko-2pac-freq 180 -o stratum+tcp://bch.viabtc.com:3333 -u usaminer.2 -p 1 --suggest-diff 64
sleep 5
done
"

crontab

Code:

@reboot /home/pi/git/vthoang/cgminer/runtask.sh

on reboot:
check for existing screens, and attach to confirm

Code:

screen -ls
screen -x miner1