Qwinn's forktools

Nineteen 100% local, 100% bash scripts to make fork maintenance and monitoring infinitely easier. Very useful even if you're only farming Chia. Includes a 100% local blockchain explorer that can provide full history of any wallet address, deeply detailed monitoring stats, service starting and stopping, code patching, automated config.yaml editing (including mass adding and/or deleting of plot directory lists), fully scripted updating of any fork to the latest released version, all forktool output can now be logged to files, and most commands can now be run for a single fork or all of them at once. Requires extremely little configuration (really only have to supply your plot directories for 'forkaddplotdirs' to work, and which services for which forks 'forkstart all' should start), but there are lots of optional configuration options available to fine tune other forktools to your taste.

Fully tested and compatible under Ubuntu 20.04, Debian 10, MacOS X, and WSL2 installations under Windows.

The Short List Of Commands And What They Do

fork - Allows you to run any command for any fork from any directory, with some abbreviations for frequently used commands
forklist - Displays count and quick list of all running farmers and harvesters
forkmon - Displays detailed statistics for all running farmers and harvesters
forkstart - Start or restart fork services. Can start all of your fork services sequentially after some configuration.
forkstop - Stop all fork services for one fork or all forks running a daemon process.
forkexplore - Provides transaction history for your target wallet address by default, but can explore any specified address
forkaddplotdirs - Uses a list you provide to add multiple plot directories to a fork, or all installed forks.
forkremoveplotdirs - Uses a list you provide to remove multiple plot directories from a fork, or all installed forks.
forkupdate - Updates your fork to a new version. Only parameters it needs are the forkname and optionally the branch/version you want.
forkpatch - Applies useful code patches to every fork. For now, only adds grayfallstown's multiprocessing_limit patch
forklog - Powerful and versatile debug.log parser
forkfixconfig - Allows you to quickly set your preferred settings in one or all fork's config.yamls.
forkedit - Simply opens up a fork's config.yaml in your preferred text editor (gedit by default)
forkcerts - Makes setting up remote harvesters much easier, particularly when performing this task for many forks at once.
forkcheck - Displays all configured ports for all forks in a chart, and identifies any non-standard ports configured for each fork.
forkports - Checks to make sure the ports used by each fork are actually only being used by that fork
forktargets - Displays a list of the target receive addresses for every fork running a farmer
forknodes - Prints a list of the peers you're connected to, in 'show -a' format for sharing with friends who can't connect
forkbenchips - Benchmarks your server's capacity for running a timelord

CHANGELOG, VERSION 4.2:

Several performance tweaks across all tools.
It is no longer necessary to rerun forktools install script after installing new forks that require symlinks. Any needed symlinks for any new forks will be created whenever you run any forktool.
forkmon: Process count and memory usage statistics for forks that spoof chia process names, as well as chia itself when run alongside such forks, are now reported accurately. (Disclaimers: Docker installations can still produce unexpected results.)
forkmon: If a blockchain directory and config.yaml is found for a fork, but the fork did not appear under Farmer or Harvester sections for any reason, it will now appear under a new third Stopped Forks section. The prime purpose is to detect hung processes for stopped forks (see next entry).
forkmon: The 'FullNode Workers' column in the Farmer section has been removed. Instead, the 'Procs DNFHW' column (which appears in all three sections of forkmon) will now display a count of each kind of process that is running (Daemon, Node, Farmer, Harvester, Wallet) instead of the current "Y" for more than zero and "N" for zero. If that count is greater than 9 processes (usually only applicable to the 'N(ode)' column), it will display '+' instead.
forkfixconfig now supports changing "num_threads" in harvester section. Experimentation modifying this value has not yielded conclusive benefits or penalties thus far.

INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS:

For new installations:

git clone https://github.com/Qwinn1/forktools
cd forktools
bash installft.sh
source ~/.bashrc

For existing users:

cd forktools
bash installft.sh   # or 'bash installfttest.sh' for testing branch

FORKTOOLS MAJOR FEATURES:

forkexplore ( 100% local address explorer ) in new daily summary mode:


                         EXPLORING Address:
   apple18ccn7ksalj9gu0t4yzj89fdsfadsfdsav7886yz22xcdx707axwmdlane8ql76k03

                    Balance:          1010 APPLE
                    Today:               8 APPLE
                    Yesterday:          10 APPLE
---------------------------------------------------------------------
                       Height      Height     Farmed         Total
DateTime               Confirmed   Spent      Block?        Amount
---------------------------------------------------------------------
2021-10-15             N/A         N/A        Yes       12.000 APPLE
2021-10-16             N/A         N/A        Yes       16.000 APPLE
2021-10-17             N/A         N/A        Yes        6.000 APPLE
2021-10-18             N/A         N/A        Yes       12.000 APPLE
2021-10-19             N/A         N/A        Yes       16.000 APPLE
2021-10-20             N/A         N/A        Yes       12.000 APPLE
2021-10-21             N/A         N/A        Yes       10.000 APPLE
2021-10-22             N/A         N/A        Yes       12.000 APPLE
2021-10-23             N/A         N/A        Yes       10.000 APPLE
2021-10-24             N/A         N/A        Yes        6.000 APPLE
2021-10-26             N/A         N/A        Yes       16.000 APPLE
2021-10-27             N/A         N/A        Yes        8.000 APPLE
2021-10-28             N/A         N/A        Yes       14.000 APPLE
2021-10-29             N/A         N/A        Yes       22.000 APPLE
2021-10-30             N/A         N/A        Yes       12.000 APPLE
2021-10-31             N/A         N/A        Yes       12.000 APPLE
2021-11-01             N/A         N/A        Yes        8.000 APPLE
2021-11-02             N/A         N/A        Yes       10.000 APPLE
2021-11-03             N/A         N/A        Yes        8.000 APPLE
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Daily summary from 2021-10-15 to 2021-11-03:           222.000 APPLE

forkmon ( Detailed overview of all running farmers and harvesters ) :

'forkmon -n' initiated on Sun Nov 28 13:18:31 EST 2021...


------------------------------------------------------------------- FARMERS: 20 -------------------------------------------------------------------
                                  Procs                                                  Memory   NoHarv       Address               Last
Farmer            Version         DNFHW  Status   #Peers   #Plots  Height  Netspace       Usage   Errors       Balance    ETW        Block   Effort
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
apple             1.2.90          16110  Farming       8     5914  625771   442 PiB     1484 MB       0          0 APPLE  4h14m    7h20m ago   173%
avocado           1.1.7.dev124    16110  Farming       8     5914  682232   321 PiB     1819 MB       0          0 AVO    2h41m    3h39m ago   135%
beet              2.1.3b0         16110  Farming       8     5914  468019   118 PiB     1231 MB       0          0 XBT    59m        12m ago    20%
btcgreen          2.2.6.dev8      16110  Farming       8     5914  520748   551 PiB     1303 MB       0          0 XBTC   4h56m       4m ago     1%
cannabis          1.2.301         16110  Farming       8     5914  623912   264 PiB     1755 MB       0          0 CANS   2h22m    3h58m ago   167%
covid             1.2.9           16110  Farming       8     5914  582097   299 PiB     1765 MB       0          0 COV    2h31m    3h48m ago   150%
flax              0.1.5           17110  Farming       8     5914  803088   3.0 EiB     2219 MB       0          0 XFX    1d2h      4h4m ago    15%
flora             0.2.12          16110  Farming       8     5914  702240   1.0 EiB     1588 MB       0          0 XFL    10h3m   18h47m ago   186%
goji              0.2.3           16110  Farming       6     5914  733208   368 PiB     1581 MB       0          0 XGJ    3h32m      25m ago    12%
goldcoin          1.2.6           16110  Farming       8     5914  396714   307 PiB     1641 MB       0          0 OZT    2h34m    3h58m ago   154%
greendoge         1.2.10          16110  Farming       8     5914  674750   838 PiB     1447 MB       0          0 GDOG   7h31m    8h15m ago   109%
maize             1.2.3.dev14     16110  Not Synced    8     5914  643655   531 PiB     1381 MB       0          0 XMZ    7h59m    9h20m ago   116%
melon             1.0.1.dev1      16110  Farming       8     5914  221369   202 PiB      857 MB       0          0 MELON  4h38m     9h2m ago   194%
mint              0.1.0           16110  Farming       8     5914  338737   328 PiB     1641 MB       0          0 XKM    2h44m    7h42m ago   280%
rolls             1.2.10.dev88    16110  Farming       8     5914   80813   225 PiB     1126 MB       0          0 ROLLS  2h17m    1h55m ago    84%
salvia            0.7.7           17110  Farming       8     5914  379130   210 PiB     1246 MB       0          0 XSLV   1h44m      22m ago    21%
scam              1.0.5           16110  Farming       8     5914  527672   173 PiB     1668 MB       0          0 SCM    1h33m      18m ago    19%
skynet            1.0.1.dev2      16110  Farming       8     5914  148846   376 PiB     1528 MB       0          0 XNT    3h8m       40m ago    21%
stor              1.0.3           16110  Farming       8     5914  465346   730 PiB     1808 MB       0          0 STOR   6h29m     8h4m ago   124%
venidium          1.0.3           16110  Farming       8     5914  196577   410 PiB     1147 MB       0          0 XVM    3h12m      39m ago    20%

------------------------------------------------------------- HARVESTERS: 20 ----------------------------------------------------------------

                                                               Plot    Plot   Average    Average    Longest    Longest   5 Sec  5 Sec  Proofs
                                  Procs                Last  Errors  Errors  Response   Response   Response   Response   Warns  Warns   Since
Harvester         Version         DNFHW   #Plots    Harvest   Today   Y/Day     Today  Yesterday      Today  Yesterday   Today  Y/Day   Y/Day
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
apple             1.2.90          16110     5914     7s ago       0       0     0.72s      0.72s      3.70s      6.48s       0      2      12
avocado           1.1.7.dev124    16110     5914     6s ago       0       0     0.75s      0.75s      2.84s      5.25s       0      1      18
beet              2.1.3b0         16110     5914     4s ago       0       0     0.76s      0.75s      3.75s      4.48s       0      0      24
btcgreen          2.2.6.dev8      16110     5914     5s ago       0       0     0.72s      0.73s      3.79s      4.07s       0      0       8
cannabis          1.2.301         16110     5914     2s ago       0       0     0.76s      0.75s      4.38s      3.32s       0      0       7
covid             1.2.9           16110     5914     7s ago       0       0     0.72s      0.73s      3.90s      6.00s       0      1      12
flax              0.1.5           17110     5914     5s ago       0       0     0.72s      0.72s      3.47s      3.80s       0      0       1
flora             0.2.12          16110     5914     5s ago       0       0     0.72s      0.72s     11.76s      4.59s       1      0       4
goji              0.2.3           16110     5914     5s ago       0       0     0.75s      0.76s      3.59s      4.23s       0      0      10
goldcoin          1.2.6           16110     5914     0s ago       0       0     0.72s      0.72s      3.26s      5.01s       0      1      11
greendoge         1.2.10          16110     5914     3s ago       0       0     0.73s      0.72s      4.70s      6.03s       0      3       5
maize             1.2.3.dev14     16110     5914   500s ago       0       0     0.75s      0.75s      4.41s      4.42s       0      0       7
melon             1.0.1.dev1      16110     5914    15s ago       0       0     0.74s      0.74s      3.57s      3.44s       0      0       8
mint              0.1.0           16110     5914     8s ago       0       0     0.72s      0.72s      4.04s      5.04s       0      1       9
rolls             1.2.10.dev88    16110     5914    11s ago       0       0     0.74s      0.72s      5.22s      4.01s       1      0      17
salvia            0.7.7           17110     5914     1s ago       0       0     0.72s      0.72s      4.90s      4.09s       0      0      20
scam              1.0.5           16110     5914     5s ago       0       0     0.76s      0.76s      3.25s      4.52s       0      0      19
skynet            1.0.1.dev2      16110     5914     2s ago       0       0     0.72s      0.72s      3.65s      3.66s       0      0      10
stor              1.0.3           16110     5914     8s ago       0       0     0.73s      0.72s      5.79s      4.76s       1      0       4
venidium          1.0.3           16110     5914     0s ago       0       0     0.72s      0.73s      4.69s      3.56s       0      0      11

---------- STOPPED FORKS: 3 -----------
Stopped                           Procs
Forks             Version         DNFHW
---------------------------------------
chia              1.2.9           00000 
seno              1.1.8.dev36     00000 
sit               1.0.2.dev3      00000

forkfixconfig ( Automated editing of fork config.yamls to preferred settings as set up in config.forkfixconfig )

(venv) qwinn@Gungnir:~/silicoin-blockchain$ forkfixconfig silicoin 10.0.0.104
Proposed changes to /home/qwinn/.silicoin/mainnet/config/config.yaml :
  Old Log Level:  log_level: "WARNING" # Can be CRITICAL, ERROR, WARNING, INFO, DEBUG, NOTSET
  New Log Level:  log_level: "INFO" # Can be CRITICAL, ERROR, WARNING, INFO, DEBUG, NOTSET
  Old Plot Load Frequency:  interval_seconds: 120 # The interval in seconds to refresh the plot file manager
  New Plot Load Frequency:  interval_seconds: 18000 # The interval in seconds to refresh the plot file manager
  Old Batch Size:  batch_size: 30 # How many plot files the harvester processes before it waits batch_sleep_milliseconds
  New Batch Size:  batch_size: 1500 # How many plot files the harvester processes before it waits batch_sleep_milliseconds
  Old Batch Sleep:  batch_sleep_milliseconds: 10 # Milliseconds the harvester sleeps between batch processing
  New Batch Sleep:  batch_sleep_milliseconds: 1 # Milliseconds the harvester sleeps between batch processing
  Old Target Peer Count:  target_peer_count: 70
  New Target Peer Count:  target_peer_count: 80
  Old Harvester Farmer_Peer IP:  host: *self_hostname
  New Harvester Farmer_Peer IP:  host: 10.0.0.104
  Appending:  multiprocessing_limit: 4
Should you proceed, a backup of your current config.yaml will be made called config.yaml.2021-09-03
Are you sure you wish to make these changes? (Y/y)y

forktargets : ( Lists target addresses as set up in config.yamls and verifies the current running farmer process is using that address. )

qwinn@Huginn:~/forktools$ forktargets
          cactus - config.yaml and Farmer RPC agree.  Address: cac1blahblah
      cryptodoge - config.yaml and Farmer RPC agree.  Address: xcd1blahblah
        dogechia - config.yaml and Farmer RPC agree.  Address: xdg11blahblah
         hddcoin - config.yaml and Farmer RPC agree.  Address: hdd11blahblah
            kale - config.yaml and Farmer RPC agree.  Address: xka11blahblah
          melati - config.yaml and Farmer RPC agree.  Address: xmx11blahblah
           olive - config.yaml and Farmer RPC agree.  Address: xol11blahblah
        pipscoin - config.yaml and Farmer RPC agree.  Address: pips11blahblah
            seno - config.yaml and Farmer RPC agree.  Address: xse11blahblah
        silicoin - WARNING!  config.yaml and RPC target addresses DO NOT MATCH!   WARNING!
                   When this happens, rewards actually go to the target address reported by the farmer RPC call.
                   If you recently edited the config.yaml but didn't restart your farmer, you should restart it or revert your config changes.
                   config.yaml:      tsit11blahblah
                   Farmer RPC call:  tsit11differentblahblah
           socks - config.yaml and Farmer RPC agree.  Address: sock1blahblah
            taco - config.yaml and Farmer RPC agree.  Address: xtx1blahblah
             tad - config.yaml and Farmer RPC agree.  Address: tad1blahblah
qwinn@Huginn:~/forktools$

forklog : ( Extremely versatile debug.log parser with multiple runtime switches including date range available. )

forklog help:

SYNOPSIS:  Extremely versatile and powerful log parsing tool.  See parameters below.
           The 'forklog running:' first line of output is the bash command generated
    after interpretation of the switches that actually produces the resulting output,
    albeit prior to some path variable substitution.
           As many search terms as desired can be added by the various switches.
    A line will show if any one of the search terms are found in that line.
           The file ftconfigs/config.forklog allows for setting some default filters
    such as a specific date range or only the previous X days worth of log entries.
           Note that the config setting FORKLOGTAIL effectively sets the maximum number
    of lines this tool can output.  This number can be overridden with -t switch.
           Running 'forklog forkname' with no switches produces the last FORKLOGTAIL
    lines of the log with no filters or search terms.

PARAMETERS/SWITCHES:
    forkname                                Required.  All others optional.
    -e | --error                            Adds 'ERROR' as a search term.
    -w | --warning                          Adds 'WARNING' as a search term.
    -h | --harv                             Adds 'harvester' as a search term.
    -p | --proof                            Adds any positive # of found proofs as a search term.
    -g 'word' | --grep 'word'               Adds 'word' as a search term.  Multiple uses allowed.
    -l 10 | --lastxdays 10                  Shows only results for the last 10 days.
    -s YYYY-MM-DD | --startdate YYYY-MM-DD  Do not show results prior to this date.  If both this
                                               and -l / --lastxdays are set, this is used.
    -u | --enddate YYYY-MM-DD               Do not show results after this date.
    -t 100 | --tail 100                     Tails the last 100 lines of the result. forklog always
                                               tails FORKLOGTAIL lines as set in ftconfigs/
                                               config.forklog. Use -t to override that default.
    -help | --help                   Show this information again.

SETTING UP ENVIRONMENT PATHS

This section is now obsolete as bash installft.sh will set up your paths in .bashrc (or .bash_profile, if you're on MacOS X) for you.

FORK NAMING CONVENTION ISSUES

This section is now obsolete as bash installft.sh will set up any known needed symlinks for you.

COMMANDS WITH NO PARAMETERS:

forkmon - In my opinion the current heart of forktools. This script gives you detailed information on every active fork process on your server, one section for farmers and another for harvesters. Includes average and longest response times, fullnode worker count, memory usage, wallet balances for your target addresses, how long ago the last block was won, number of 5 second warnings in the logs, ETW (far more accurately than what chia or any other fork provides), effort percent, and much more! Forkmon can take a single fork as a parameter, a -n / --nobalance switch can be specified to show all wallet balances as 0, useful if you want privacy when posting forkmon results online, and either -f --farmeronly or -h | --harvesteronly to show only one of the two sections.
forkports - Checks potential port locking contention on all installed forks, whether running or not. Runs ss scanning for ports used by each fork (as set in each fork's config.yaml) and lists any process which references those ports and does not contain that fork's binary name as the owner of the process. Ignores timelord port, timelord launcher port, introducer port and remote peer port usage, as conflicts with these do not create any problems for the vast majority of users.
forkcheck - Whereas forkports monitors actual port usage, forkcheck lists all the ports as set in your config.yaml's in a nicely formatted chart (very similar in layout to the Chia Forks Trader "Unofficial List of Chia Forks" ports tab) and, as a bonus, compares them to the ports in the fork's initial-config.yaml and identifies all non-standard ports that you have set up in your operating configs.
forktargets - lists the target wallet addresses as configured in every active fork farmer's config.yaml in a convenient and organized list for easy visual comparison to whatever list of wallet addresses you intend rewards to go to that you're currently maintaining. Also compares the target setting in config.yaml to the RPC call for the same value, and gives a big warning if they don't match.
forklist - Gives both farmer and harvester counts including a single line list of which forks are running for each.

COMMANDS WITH ONE PARAMETER: FORKNAME

forkfixconfig chia - Provides automated editing of several entries in chia's config.yaml that require frequent editing - log level, plot loading frequency, farmer peer for harvesters, and several more. Requires confirmation and creates backups. Does not actually require editing of default options in config.forkfixconfig - the defaults I picked should work fine - but if you'd like to tweak them, you can do so there. Can accept "all", "farmers" or "harvesters" instead of forkname. Now supports fork-level overrides. Run forkfixconfig -help or read the comments in ftconfigs/config.forkfixconfig for details.
forkedit hddcoin - Opens the .hddcoin/mainnet/config/config.yaml file in gedit. You can now set your preferred text editor in config.forkedit.
forknodes avocado - prints a list of currently connected nodes for sharing with others having difficulty connecting. Prepends each node and port with "avocado show -a " for easy CLI connection command via cut and paste.
forkbenchips taco - runs benchmark of your system's capacity to run a timelord for tad, in ips. Requires having previously run sh install-timelord.sh in the tad-blockchain directory
forkaddplotdirs taco - Requires configuration in config.forkaddplotdirs to use. List your plot directories there, then you can add them to any fork quickly with a single command. Gives warnings if a drive listed in the config is not mounted. Can be run with "all" as the parameter instead of forkname to add directories to every installed fork.
forkremoveplotdirs tad - Requires configuration in config.forkremoveplotdirs to use. Allows for systemic removal of plot directories from one or all installed forks.
forkupdate - Updates a fork to the most recent version with a single command. Removes the existing blockchain directory and recreates it with git clone as a fresh installation. Can optionally take a -b "tag" switch (to be applied to the git clone commmand). Note that forkupdate will backup and then remove the existing config.yaml so that 'fork init' during the update process will recreate a fresh config.yaml that includes any new parameters added by the development team. Target addresses, farmer peer and multiprocessing_limit will be transferred to the new config.yaml, and other settings will be configured via forkfixconfig (so your settings in config.forkfixconfig will be applied).

COMMANDS WITH MULTIPLE PARAMETERS/SWITCHES

fork - Allows you to issue commands from any directory as if you were cd'd into the fork's -blockchain directory and activated. It allows for 16 3-letter abbreviations for the 2nd parameter - 'sum' for 'farm summary', 'wal' for 'wallet show', 'ver' for 'version', and now 13 additional abbreviations for other forktools. Run fork -help for details. Note that fork can still only support a specific forkname as the first parameter, it does not support running other forktools for 'all' even if the forktool itself supports running for all forks.
forkstart - Use this to start up one, or all, of your farmers, harvesters, and timelords. By editing config.forkstartall, you can run forkstart all to start every farmer and harvester you like sequentially (great for use following a reboot). When running for a single fork, use one of the following switches: forkstart forkname -fnw for farmer-no-wallet, -f for farmer with wallet, -h for harvester and -t for timelord. Run forkstart -help for complete usage details.
forkstop - Use this to stop all services for one or all forks (great for prepping for a shutdown). Run forkstop -help for usage details.
forklog - This single function has now replaced all previous log parsing forktools. Running it without switches will just get you a tail of the log. You can manipulate log output now any way I could think of if you get creative with the switches, but you're still able to duplicate the quick and simple older versions with a single switch for each. Just run forklog -help to get a full list of options. The first line of forklog output will be the actual bash command that is constructed after all the switches and parameters are interpreted that produces the output that follows.
forkexplore - 100% local address explorer. Provides address balances for your target receive address for the selected fork, but has an additional -a switch which allows you to explore any receive address you wish, hot or cold, and all the same date range options that forklog has. Does not require sync, just a running farmer and full node. Can run in --daily and --monthly summary modes. Run forkexplore -help for detailed usage instructions.
forkpatch - Can be run for one fork or 'all' forks. Used to apply useful code patches to every fork. As of version 4.1, supports two patches: First, patch -multiproc, grayfallstown's phenomenal multiprocessing_limit patch, which has been known to reduce RAM usage by 30-40% per fork (effects can vary depending on the number of CPU cores, the more cores you have the more improvement you'll see), and forkpatch allows you to apply it to every fork. Second, patch -logwinningplots will add a line to your debug.logs identifying the specific plot in which each and every proof was found.
forkcerts - Makes setting up remote harvesters much easier. It will export all farmer ca folders containing ssl certs into a single folder for easy transfer to and import on remote harvesters for the required init -c process. Also sets the farmer peer setting in the harvester config.yamls during the import process.

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OLDER CHANGELOGS

Changelog, Version 4.1:

Confirmed compatibility with Debian 10. Note that Debian users may need to run apt install bc as the bc function, which allows for some basic mathematical processing in bash, does not appear to be part of a default Debian installation.
Users running forktools under certain locale settings (such as European locales that display commas instead of periods for decimals) should no longer suffer minor display and calculation issues.
New tool forkcerts makes setting up remote harvesters much easier. It will export all farmer ca folders containing ssl certs into a single folder for easy transfer to and import on remote harvesters for the required init -c process. Also sets the farmer peer setting in the harvester config.yamls during the import process.
fork, in addition to the 3 previous abbreviations 'sum', 'wal' and 'ver', now supports an additional 13 three-letter abbreviations for various other forktools. For example, instead of running forkfixconfig chia, you can run fork chia fix. Run fork -help for the list of available abbreviations. Note that the capability of running for 'all' forks cannot be replicated in this way. fork can still only be run for one forkname at a time.
forkpatch now supports a second patch, -logwinningplots, which will identify the specific plot any proof was found in in your debug.log.
forkfixconfig now supports setting enable_upnp and the two new db_sync parameters recently added by Chia. Like all other parameters, this can be set by a fork-specific config override if desired.
forkupdate will now automatically detect whether any forkpatch was previously applied to the fork and attempt to reapply them just before the restart at the end of forkupdate.
forkupdate will now preserve chia pooling parameters and foxypool pooling parameters when recreating the fork's config.yaml.
forkexplore transaction details now go to 3 decimal point precision, rather than 2.
forkexplore can now be run in summary mode with -d (for daily) and -m (for monthly) switches. Will report farmed and non-farmed totals separately for easier trend analysis.
forkports has been refined even more to detect more local port usage and exclude more remote port usage in conflict determination.
forkmon now shows "Plot Errors Today" and "Plot Errors Y/Day" in the harvester section. This count sums 4 different plot related errors that can be found in the harvester logs.
forkmon will now show the number of seconds since winning the last block, rather than a blank, when the last block was won less than a minute ago.
forkmon harvester section will now display forks that have just been set up and never actually started harvesting yet more gracefully.
forkmon and forkexplore can now be run with -o switch, intended to allow users to monitor their NFT recovery addresses. This relies on the user having set up a config.nftaddress.forkname file in the ftconfigs folder specifying the NFT recovery address for each fork they want to monitor with forkmon -o or forkexplore -o.
Symlink creation for silicoin revised to the new sit naming structure. Technical support for this fork should not be misconstrued as a recommendation to farm this fork.

Changelog, Version 4.0:

New tool forkremoveplotdirs. Identical to forkaddplotdirs except that it removes plot directories instead of adding them. Has its own config file that needs to be edited in order to use.
New tool forkcheck. Whereas forkports monitors actual port usage, forkcheck lists all the ports as set in your config.yaml's in a nicely formatted chart (very similar in layout to the Chia Forks Trader "Unofficial List of Chia Forks" ports tab) and, as a bonus, compares them to the ports in the fork's initial-config.yaml and identifies all non-standard ports in your operating configs.
New tool forkpatch. Applies popular code patches to all forks, with plenty of validation to ensure the patch can be applied safely. For now, only supports grayfallstown's excellent multiprocessing_limit patch that can drastically reduce CPU and memory usage. Works on every known fork. And there will be more global code patches to come!
Extensive improvements to forkports. Now runs for every installed fork it can find, rather than only forks running a harvester process. Now ignores conflicts with timelord port and timelord launcher port (because the vast majority of people don't run them) and introducer port and remote peer port usage (because neither conflicts with local ports). Forks with very long names (looking at you, LLC) will no longer show as conflicting with itself. And forkports now runs much much much much much faster.
forktargets now also runs much much faster
forkaddplotdirs and the new forkremoveplotdirs now support fork-specific config files. For example, if you have a different set of plot directories for chives, simply create ftconfigs/config.forkaddplotdirs.chives, and set the fork-specific plot directories in it. These fork-specific configs will be respected even when running with 'all' parameter and when run from within forkupdate.
forkfixconfig also supports fork specific configs now, but behaves slightly differently. You name them the same way (config.forkfixconfig.forkname) and you COULD make it a duplicate of the entire main config.forkfixconfig file and it would all work (any setting in config.forkfixconfig can be overridden by the value set in config.forkfixconfig.forkname), but you probably shouldn't, because the settings in the main file, config.forkfixconfig, are still operative and applied unless overwritten by the settings in the fork specific config. So for example if you want to just override the Maize full node RPC port to resolve the conflict with Tranzact's full node port, create config.forkfixconfig.maize and have only one line in it, SETFULLNODERPCPORT= 8667. Then even when you update the fork with forkupdate, that port setting will always be re-applied, and all the other global settings from the main config.forkfixconfig will also still be applied. This way you still only have to maintain the global settings that you don't ever override in one place, config.forkfixconfig.
The install scripts have been improved so that, when new parameters are added to a forktool's config template file, the new parameters will be automatically added to your own custom config files and all of your personal preferred settings will be preserved.
A bug that could very very rarely cause some forktools to just display the -help information and nothing else has been fixed.
All hardcoded references to specific forks in forktools code have been removed. The code that deals with forks that use "chia" process names and otherwise do things in a non-standard fashion is entirely dynamic now, and if a fork changes the way it handles those things from one version to another, forktools will support both versions.
forkfixconfig can now be used to edit parallel_read in the harvester section, which is mainly only useful to Mac OS X users using exfat-formatted drives.
forkmon now has a "Srvcs DNFHW" column in both sections. This identifies which services are running. The DNFHW refers to Daemon Node Farmer Harvester Wallet, and it will show Y under that service's letter if it's running, and N if it isn't.
Many irrelevant bash error messages, particularly in forkmon and forkexplore, that were generated during normal, expected operation will no longer be logged or visible to users.
If a newly installed fork is still below height 500, accurate ETW calculations aren't possible. forkmon will now show "Ht<500" under ETW and "N/A" under Effort in this circumstance.
If a newly installed fork has never had a successful harvest, forkmon will now show 'Never' under LastHarvest rather than the number of seconds since 1970.
Symlink creation for venidium removed now that it has moved to mainnet.

Changelog, Version 3.11:

Extensive improvements to forkupdate. The version grab works identically to git clone now, a ton more validation, and if either the git clone command fails or the user does not actively confirm that the update went well at the end of the process, the original -blockchain directory and config.yaml are restored.
No more hardcoded forks in the forkmon/forkexplore logic to grab the major-minor multiplier in the code. So if a fork wants to name their code directory 'chia' instead of their own forkname, this will be automatically detected now, and different versions of the same fork that handle it different ways can now both work simultaneously.

Changelog, Version 3.1:

forkstart all can now take a -s # switch, where # is the number of seconds to sleep in between starting each fork. Good for if it's been a while since you ran your forks and they'll need to resync, or for weaker CPUs that have trouble starting that many processes consecutively without a pause.
forkmon and forkexplore can now take a -p switch, which makes them report on hot wallet address instead of target address. Intended for folks who use cold wallets and NFT plots to quickly see if any pool rewards have gone to their hot wallets so they can transfer them to their cold wallets.
Flora has renamed their code directory and major-to-minor multiplier code to 'chia'. Added special handling to make forktools compatible to Flora 1.2.9+.
forkupdate: if -b main or -b latest was explicitly specified, forkupdate would fail if those branches didn't exist. They are now validated prior to attempting to run forkupdate.
Install script for main will now make install script for testing executable, and vice versa.

Changelog, Version 3.01:

Lucky has properly renamed their processes in their latest version. This update just removes the special handling that was previously required. Update to latest version of lucky for it to be compatible with latest forktools versions.

Changelog, Version 3.0:

full Mac OS X compatibility has been achieved. Thanks, SolarHash, for all the help with this!
all tools now have far more detailed online -help
all tools now print the datetime it was initiated as the first line of output.
all configuration files are now moved to and searched for in new forktools/ftconfigs directory.
all tools can now have their output logged to files created in the new forktools/ftlogs directory. Only forkmon output is logged by default. Edit ftconfigs/config.logging to enable logging for any other forktool.
there are now two install scripts. bash installft.sh will update you to the latest code in the main branch. bash installfttest.sh will update you to the latest code in the testing branch.
forkconfig has been renamed to forkedit, to prevent confusion with forkfixconfig
forkexplore can now handle 0 or just 1 transaction found without errors
forkmon now handles Last Block and Effort% calculations much better when a block hasn't been won yet. Effort% will in that case be calculated from the date of the first successful harvest in the earliest log (so, assuming you haven't deleted logs, from when you started farming the fork).
forkmon has been optimized for faster performance
forkmon can now accept -f | --farmeronly or -h | --harvesteronly switches to skip the other section of forkmon's output.
forkaddplotdirs can now accept "all" instead of forkname as a parameter, which will add the drives specified in ftconfigs/config.forkaddplotdirs to every fork with an active harvester. Great for adding a brand new drive to all forks.
forkfixconfig can now accept "all" instead of forkname as a parameter, which will apply the settings specified in ftconfigs/config.forkfixconfig to every fork with an active harvester. Can also use "farmers" instead of forkname to only configure forks running a farmer, or "harvesters" instead to configure only forks running an active harvester but not an active farmer.
new tool forklist replaces the old forkcounth. Instead of just giving a count of running harvesters and nothing else, forklist gives both farmer and harvester counts including a single line list of which forks are running for each. I am finding this tool extremely handy and using it constantly.
new tool forkstop accepts switches, enabling it to replace forkstopa, forkstoph, forkstoptl and forkstopall. Run forkstop -help for details.
new tool forkstart accepts switches, enabling it to replace forkstartf, forkstartfnw, forkstarth, forkstartall and forkstarttl. Run forkstart -help for details.
new tool fork allows you to issue any command from any directory as if you were cd'd into the fork's -blockchain directory and activated. It allows for 3 3-letter abbreviations that effectively replace forkver, forksum, and forkwalletshow. Instead of those tools, you can now run 'fork chia ver', 'fork flax sum', and 'fork hddcoin wal', for example. And you can submit any other command you wish that can be run from the activated -blockchain directory, such as 'fork hddcoin show -a 132.123.213.321:4131'
new tool forkupdate updates a fork to the most recent tagged release from the fork's online repository (from the "latest" branch if the fork maintains one, from "main" if not) with a single command. Removes the existing blockchain directory and recreates it with git clone as a fresh installtion. Can optionally take a -b "tag" switch (to be applied to the git clone commmand). Note that forkupdate will backup and then remove the existing config.yaml so that 'fork init' during the update process will recreate a fresh config.yaml that includes any new parameters added by the development team. Target addresses and farmer peer will be transferred to the new config.yaml, and other settings will be configured via forkfixconfig (so your settings in config.forkfixconfig will be applied).
changes to some scripts to allow compatibility with shells that run fork processes (and thus change the format of process lists), like SCREEN

Changelog, Version 2.2:

All configuration options have been moved out of forktoolsinit.sh and into sub-includes named config.forkstartall, config.forkaddplotdirs, etc. For your own convenience, please preserve your settings when updating for transfer to the new config file structure.
New bash installft.sh installation script. Updates code to latest version, tests for curl installation, sets up environment variables, creates all known needed symlinks, sets up new config.forktool files from .template versions if not already configured (see previous changelog entry) and makes forktools executable.
Compatibility added for forks that do not rename their processes, folders or code directories from "chia". Prime examples are lucky (edit: lucky processes have since been fixed), xcha, nchain, rose and fishery. Please note that adding this compatibility is NOT an endorsement on my part recommending farming of any forks with such terrible lazy coding practices. Quite the opposite. KNOWN ISSUE: Everything works except memory usage, which cannot be fixed at this time due to process names being indistinguishable from chia and each other.
Forkmon fixes and enhancements:
- Issue with a minority of forks showing "1 plot" should be fixed.
- Can now accept optional first parameter FORKNAME to only show output for the specified fork
- Can now accept optional parameter -n (or --nobalance) to show all wallet balances as 0 (for privacy if posting results publicly)
- Forkmon will no longer be fooled by forks that duplicate chia process names into thinking chia is running when it isn't
- Added "Height" as a column
- When forkmon is initiated, a "Forkmon initiated at datetime" stamp will be sent to the forkerrors.txt error dump file.
- Fixed incorrect chia netspace display. Also added a decimal point of precision when netspace shown in EiB
- Forkmon should be able to handle debug.log files with NULLs in them now (which can happen if harvesters are running when server crashes)
Forklog fixes and enhancements
- The first line of output from forklog will now always be the actual bash command that was assembled from all the parameters and switches to generate the output that follows.
- The previous "FORKLOGTAIL" setting (which is now set in config.forklog) is now always active. Puts a hard limit on how many lines of output you can get. Can be overridden with -t parameter.
- Can now run forklog with just a -t parameter, to just tail the last bunch of lines.
forkaddplotdirs will now show warnings if a drive specified in config.forkaddplotdirs is not mounted.
forkshowwallet renamed to forkwalletshow to be consistent with the format of the manual command.
forkedit default text editor can now be changed via editing config.forkedit (defaults to gedit as before) (this entry revised as of version 3.0 due to renaming of forkconfig to forkedit)
A great deal of work has been made to make forktools MacOS X compatible, though some work still needs to be done. The simpler tools should work fine on MaxOS X, but forklog, forkmon and forkexplore probably won't until at least next version.

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