Tried 3 different forks… https://github.com/tpruvot/cpuminer-multi.git

https://github.com/JayDDee/cpuminer-opt

https://github.com/luisvasquez/cpuminer-easy

Check Github for info.

They are all kind of the same. I tried to use the .json conf file but it kind of didnt work the way it was supposed to.

I start the miner with the following commands:

./cpuminer --syslog --algo=cryptonight --user=<YOURWALLET>.<WORKERNAME> --pass=x --url=stratum+tcp://cryptonight.eu.nicehash.com:3355 --background

Pass “x” is needed to make the “wallet.name” work. If you set your workername instead of “x” and remove the “.name” there will be no name shown or used!

I dont want to start the miner by path with commands so I created a startscript which you can place in /etc/init.d/. If you did that, you can start|stop|restart the miner with “service <scriptname> <start|stop|restart>”

Its not perfect yet, it doesnt write a pidfile and I kind of cant get the pid with ps -ef. Fix it yourself if you need this…

#!/bin/bash
 
SERVICENAME=/scripts/cpuminer-easy/cpuminer
PID=`ps -ef |  grep '[c]puminer' | cut -d " " -f6`
 
    case "$1" in
    start)
        SERVICE=nohup /scripts/cpuminer-easy/cpuminer-start.sh </dev/null $
        #echo $! >/var/run/cpuminer.pid
        [ $? -eq 0 ] && echo "$SERVICENAME was started"
    ;;
    stop)
        #kill -9 $(cat /var/run/cpuminer.pid)
        #rm /var/run/cpuminer.pid
        kill -9 $PID
        [ $? -eq 0 ] && echo "$SERVICENAME was stopped"
    ;;
    restart)
        $0 stop
        $0 start
    ;;
    status)
        #if [ -z "$PID" ];
        #then
        #echo "$SERVICENAME not running"
        #else
        #echo "$SERVICENAME is running"
        #fi
 
    ;;
    *)
        echo "Usage: $0 (start|stop|restart)"
    ;;
    esac

#!bin/bash
 
/scripts/cpuminer-easy/cpuminer --syslog --algo=cryptonight --user=<YOURWALLET>.<WORKERNAME> --pass=x --url=stratum+tcp://cryptonight.eu.nicehash.com:3355 --background