SFXOS: Safex Cash mining operating system support

Shakyamuni · September 30, 2020, 6:30pm

Having the issue with Miner shut down and couldn’t reboot, reflashed drive loaded and back to original issue of same the browser isn’t updating the config file, had help from sssharanster and he had me SSH and do this Modification to config file Believe this was first step or could have been second Help needed pls. free -mh

Asus b450 pro4

sudo lsof -i:3311

cat /sfxrig/xmrig/config.json

sudo cat /root/backup_config.json

sudo cp /sfxrig/xmrig/config.json /root/backup_config.json

Cat command to display file contents
cp command to make a copy of a file
scp - secure copy

bash /sfxrig/sfxrig-local.sh

/sfxrig/xmrig/xmrig -c /sfxrig/xmrig/config.json
ps -ef | grep sfxrig

sudo service xmrig start

Or this was first and the above second
ps -ef | grep sfxrig

Second Command

/sfxrig/xmrig/xmrig -c /sfxrig/xmrig/config.json

Thanks in advance!!

pooi · October 1, 2020, 2:35am

did you change the original password?

Shakyamuni · October 1, 2020, 4:46am

No didn’t see in the directions to do so.

pooi · October 2, 2020, 4:00pm

@Shakyamuni, i noticed that when it happens… the network seem to fail… i have a few laptops on that network… and it seem that only the pc that has problem unable to reach my router gateway.

all the other laptops are fine… so during reboot, it probably reset something on the network drivers…

any idea to fix it?

Shakyamuni · October 2, 2020, 9:36pm

All laptops work fine I needed manual input of wallet address in flash drive

pooi · October 6, 2020, 1:20am

i tried to restart all the network interfaces… dont seem to work…

only a reboot will help it. if you have any idea to go around it… do share

caelum · October 25, 2020, 7:31am

I am not able to get my miner to connect to the pool. I am able to enter my info into the host/config to submit my address, but then when i go to https://pool.safex.org/#worker_stats and enter my address, it shows as not found. Is there any port forwarding or anything needed to allow my safex rig to connect to the pool?

pooi · October 26, 2020, 2:19am

hey… try to disable your firewall and see

aussiesloth · October 26, 2020, 2:58am

Note: @caelum had his issue resolved in Discord (credit to Lomax)

caelum · October 26, 2020, 3:19am

Some things for others…

If you get a 404 error when you start the first time, reboot the server, possibly even twice and then I was able to login.

Add your wallet address and Submit the JSON config on the sfxrig. If you are unable to find your machine on https://pool.safex.org/#worker_stats it means it likely did not take your config on submission and you will need to manually add the info to the config on the server.

To do that you can ssh sfxrig@ip, password also sfxrig

Once ssh’ed into the rig:
go to right dir:
cd /sfxrig/xmrig

then do this to open config in nano,
sudo nano config.json
change address if it is not the right address and save it, Ctrl+X, then type Y

Run screen to start a screen session, so it keeps running after you logout
then start the miner:
sudo ./xmrig -c config.json

Thanks to Lomax for the assist with this.

Stevo · November 12, 2020, 12:08pm

Just would like to know in advance, will running a VPN disrupt set up in that it hides my IP? I know that anti virus is causing problems but what about VPN?

aussiesloth · November 12, 2020, 7:51pm

If mining via a VPN, you would simply use your allocated VPN IP address to check your mining stats on the pool website.

As to whether it has an impact, you’d have to check with the specific VPN service to ascertain if they block any ports, etc.

Stevo · November 12, 2020, 8:45pm

I thought when using a VPN service ( I use Express VPN) that they changed your IP according to where you connect?

aussiesloth · November 12, 2020, 9:03pm

Yes… so whatever IP address is allocated from the VPN connection is what you’d use to check mining stats on the pool.

dandabek · November 14, 2020, 9:33pm

@stevo I don’t think using a VPN will be a problem, it is just the ip address. The pool doesn’t care where you express you’re from.

should be ok!

pokerdude · November 25, 2021, 4:20am

So on my second rig, I’m now on my third MB, which is exactly the same model as the MB on my first rig, which continues to work like a champ. The second rig with the new third MB worked well for awhile, but recently stopped working. It never launched itself, so I had to go into BIOS and manually launch the software. The latest is that when I start up the rig, the video card is no longer detecting an HDMI signal so I am unable to go into BIOS to launch the software.

Any advice? TIA.

aussiesloth · November 25, 2021, 5:04am

Never used SFXOS, so my help will be limited by that caveat…

So your gpu card is bedded soundly in the slot?

pokerdude · November 25, 2021, 3:30pm

Don’t have a gpu card, just the ryzen 9 cpu plus a video card. Everyone clamped down solidly and the cpu runs fine.

I let it sit overnight and restarted the rig this morning and it worked on the first try so I’m back in business. This after about 8 failed attempts to do the same thing yesterday, lol.

aussiesloth · November 25, 2021, 5:10pm

Sorry dude, you’ve got me a little confused there. So, erm… you’ve got a video card, but it’s not a gpu card??

pokerdude · November 27, 2021, 1:39am

Yes, I have a video card I plug into the MB so I can connect a monitor to the VC, which allows me to go into BIOS and launch the software manually.