Alas, I'm giving it my best shot here but I'm stuck with the following error message and resulting status info after going through the whole process again.  Made sure to double check my files and to use futurebit as the user instead of bitcoin:


sudo service lightningd start:
Job for lightningd.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status lightningd.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.

systemctl status lightningd.service:
● lightningd.service - C-Lightning daemon
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/lightningd.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2022-11-16 01:06:38 PST; 1min 24s ago
    Process: 2204936 ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/lightningd --daemon --conf /home/futurebit/.lightning/bitcoin/lightningd.conf (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Nov 16 01:06:38 futurebitbtc systemd[1]: lightningd.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5.
Nov 16 01:06:38 futurebitbtc systemd[1]: Stopped C-Lightning daemon.
Nov 16 01:06:38 futurebitbtc systemd[1]: lightningd.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Nov 16 01:06:38 futurebitbtc systemd[1]: lightningd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Nov 16 01:06:38 futurebitbtc systemd[1]: Failed to start C-Lightning daemon.

I think I might just be in over my head.  I'll probably give it another try to implement on my futurebit after learning some more about working in linux.  Thanks again for your help N0nce and for putting together the guide.  And if any other troubleshooting ideas come to mind, let me know I'll give it a go.