eos-bp-watchdog

Script for automatically unregistering a block producer when it stops producing

Requirements:

• cleos
• jq

First time setup

1. Create key for the watchdog permissions:

cleos create key

Private key: YOUR_PRIVATE_KEY

Public key: YOUR_PUBLIC_KEY

2. Grant watchdog permissions

PRODUCERACCT=yourbp

cleos set account permission $PRODUCERACCT watchdog '{"threshold":1,"keys":[{"key":"YOUR_PUBLIC_KEY","weight":1}]}' "active" -p $PRODUCERACCT@active

cleos set action permission $PRODUCERACCT eosio unregprod watchdog

3. Create wallet for the watchdog permissions

cleos wallet create -n watchdog

Save password to use in the future to unlock this wallet.

Without password imported keys will not be retrievable.

"PWyourpasswordyourpasswordyourpasswordyourpassword"

3. Import key for the watchdog permissions

cleos wallet import YOUR_PRIVATE_KEY -n watchdog

4. Modify the PRODUCERACCT and PASS variables inside watchdog.sh

Run

./watchdog.sh yourbp PWyourpasswordyourpasswordyourpasswordyourpassword

Contributors

• LiquidEOS