Update Automatically on Linux

On Linux, you can set up xrpld to automatically upgrade to the latest version with a one-time cron configuration.

These instructions assume you have already installed xrpld from a package on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu Linux, or Debian Linux.

To set up automatic updates, complete the following steps:

1. Check that /opt/ripple/etc/update-rippled-cron exists. If it does not, update manually (Red Hat or Ubuntu/Debian).

2. Create a symlink in your cron.d folder to the /opt/ripple/etc/update-rippled-cron config file:

   sudo ln -s /opt/ripple/etc/update-rippled-cron /etc/cron.d/

   This configuration runs a script to update the installed xrpld package within an hour of each new release. To avoid network instability from too many servers updating at the same time, this script does not automatically restart the server, so it continues to run the old version until it restarts.

3. Whenever a new release comes out, you must manually restart the xrpld service to switch to the updated software.

   sudo systemctl restart xrpld.service

• Concepts:
  • The xrpld Server
  • Consensus
• Tutorials:
  • Capacity Planning
  • Troubleshoot xrpld
• References:
  • xrpld API Reference
    • xrpld Commandline Usage
    • server_info method