looking inside .bitcoin, the only differences i see btwn the contents of this BCH blockchain and my currently working BTC blockchain, both inside Ubuntu VM's on different machines, are two additional files inside the BTC blockchain; .cookie and bitcoind.pid. anyone recognize those two and what they are? are they critical to getting this Node Online?
@HCP: there is no bitcoin.conf inside my working .bitcoin directory on my BTC blockchain.
How do you launch the BTC "bitcoind"? @HCP: there is no bitcoin.conf inside my working .bitcoin directory on my BTC blockchain.
Are you using any commandline parameters?The .cookie file is used for RPC Authentication... without it, you probably won't be able to connect to bitcoind via RPC. You might want to check some of the commandline options as specified here: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Running_Bitcoin
I would think that, at the very least, -server would be required so that it accepts the RPC commands. It's also possible you're running into some weird behaviour with them in VMs relating to ports and networking...