Install

Website | Twitter | Discord | Explorer

Download the binary file

wget https://github.com/PureStake/moonbeam/releases/download/v0.33.0/moonbeam

Create a service account to run

adduser moonriver_service --system --no-create-home

Create a directory to store the binary and data

mkdir /var/lib/moonriver-data

Move the binary file to the created folder

mv ./moonbeam /var/lib/moonriver-data

Set ownership and permissions for the local directory where the chain data is stored

sudo chown -R moonriver_service /var/lib/moonriver-data

Create configuration file

vim /etc/systemd/system/moonriver.service

Note

If you are setting up a collator node, make sure to follow the code snippets for Collator. Note that you have to:

• Replace YOUR-NODE-NAME in two different places
• Replace “50% RAM in MB” for 50% of the actual RAM your server has. For example, for 32 GB RAM, the value must be set to 16000. The minimum value is 2000, but it is below the recommended specs
• Double-check that the binary is in the proper path as described below (ExecStart)
• Double-check the base path if you’ve used a different directory

[Unit]
Description="Moonriver systemd service"
After=network.target
StartLimitIntervalSec=0

[Service]
Type=simple
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=10
User=moonriver_service
SyslogIdentifier=moonriver
SyslogFacility=local7
KillSignal=SIGHUP
ExecStart=/var/lib/moonriver-data/moonbeam \
     --collator \
     --trie-cache-size 1073741824 \
     --db-cache 50% RAM in MB \
     --base-path /var/lib/moonriver-data \
     --chain moonriver \
     --name "INSERT_YOUR_NODE_NAME" \
     -- \
     --name="INSERT_YOUR_NODE_NAME (Embedded Relay)"

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Navigate to the directory where the binary file is located and grant access rights

cd /var/lib/moonriver-data
chmod +x moonbeam
chown moonriver_service moonbeam
cd $HOME

Start the service

sudo systemctl enable moonriver.service
sudo systemctl start moonriver.service
sudo systemctl status moonriver.service

Check the logs

sudo journalctl -u moonriver.service -f -o cat

Delete node

sudo systemctl stop moonriver.service
sudo systemctl disable moonriver.service
sudo rm /etc/systemd/system/moonriver.service
rm -rf /var/lib/moonriver-data
sudo systemctl daemon-reload