Here it is: dont be rude please, i write this mostly during my lunch break today to safe some time during the next couple of setups.

• It is currently only tested on a vultr VPS but should work almost anywhere
• Developed with recent Ubuntu versions in mind, including 14.04/15.10/16.04/16.10
• This script doesnt care about the controller wallet side of things
• Installs 1-100 (or more!) masternodes in parallel on one machine, with individual config and data
• Compilation is currently from source for the desired git repo tag (currently 2.1.6-stable)
• Some security hardening is done, including firewalling and a separate user
• Automatic startup for all masternode daemons
• It's ipv6 enabled, tor/onion will follow
• This script needs to run as root, the masternodes will and should not!

0) Download and tun this script on your VPS instance or an Ubuntu VM

1) change the amount of masternodes you want to install/configure at the top of the script ("eg SETUP_NODES_COUNT=3")

2) ADD your masternode private key to the configuration file(s) located at /etc/pivx_n$NUM.conf. Optionally, adapt the IP configuration for multi-node-on-one-system setups. For example, when installing three DNET masternodes:

* writing config file /etc/pivx_n1.conf
* writing config file /etc/pivx_n2.conf
* writing config file /etc/pivx_n3.conf

3) Still AS ROOT run /usr/local/bin/restart_masternodes.sh to activate the services permanently. Individual masternode data directories are located in /var/lib/pivx${NUMBER_OF_NODE}

4) subsequently, you should only work as masternode user and not root. The default user account created is pivxd. You can change to this user with the following command

vps:~ su - pivxd

• rewrite for config templates and provide my Dockerfile & Vagrantfile
• document the vultr signup and setup procedure
• currently not fully idempotent, be careful when running it often
• provide a delete / uninstall flag
• create a logfile

Ping me at [email protected] for questions and send some crypto my way if you are happy.

Have fun, this is crypto after all!

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PIVX DQS4rk57bteJ42FSNSPpwqHUoNhx4ywfQc