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Installing Vestad

Pre-Requisites​

See Set-up.

Firewall Configuration​

Configure UFW to only accept traffic on ports we use.

ufw limit ssh/tcp comment 'Rate limit for openssh server'
ufw default deny incoming
ufw default allow outgoing
ufw allow 26656/tcp comment 'Vesta - Cosmos SDK/Tendermint P2P'
ufw allow 26657/tcp comment 'Vesta - Cosmos SDK/Tendermint P2P'
ufw enable
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Perform the next follow steps as your vesta user with 'sudo' permissions

Creating a Service​

You may want the daemon to run without you needing to supervise it. To turn the executable into a service follow these steps.

First create the service file /etc/systemd/system/vestad.service

sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/vestad.service

Copy and paste the follow into the service file: (you may need to edit it if you've set a custom home directory location)

[Unit]
Description=Vesta Validator
After=network.target

[Service]
Group=vesta
User=vesta
WorkingDirectory=/home/vesta
ExecStart=/home/vesta/go/bin/vestad start
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=3
LimitNOFILE=8192

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Update systemd and enable the service file.

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable vestad.service

Building from Source​

Replace <VERSION> with the current running version.

git clone https://github.com/VestaProtocol/vesta.git
cd vesta
git fetch -a
git checkout <VERSION>

make install

From there you will be able to use vestad, ex:

vestad version