Currently, the Bitcoind.Dir configuration option is used as the base
directory for locating both the bitcoind configuration file and the RPC
cookie file. However, it is quite common for Bitcoin Core to be packaged
in such a way that the configuration file and the RPC cookie file reside
in different directories: "/etc/bitcoin/bitcoin.conf" and
"/var/lib/bitcoind/.cookie".
This change makes it such that --bitcoind.config and
--bitcoind.rpccookie options can be specified to override the default
auto-detection logic, and if either is unspecified, the auto-detection
logic will still do its job.
In this commit, we expose a new monitoring option to allow users to
export gRPC performance metrics. These metrics can be used to see how
long certain calls are taking, the total amount of time spent handling
calls, broken down by service and also call.
This option consumes additional memory and disk space for the Prometheus
server, which is why we're opting to make it an optional flag.
To enable converting an existing wallet with private key material into a
watch-only wallet on first startup with remote signing enabled, we add a
new flag. Since the conversion is a destructive process, this shouldn't
happen automatically just because remote signing is enabled.
Unfortunately, we can't use the graph cache directly here as it doesn't
include all the information we need, since it only includes the minimal
amount of information needed for path finding.
Instead, we use a simple mutex guarded cache that evicts itself after a
certain interval. The default is set small enough that most users
shouldn't really notice. We also provide a way to disable the cache, and
also disable the cache in the itests.
Fixes https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/issues/1232
[skip-ci]
payments-expiration-grace-period needs time unit h/m/s or else the lnd does not start.
; payments-expiration-grace-period=30s
Corrected minor typo.
This commit adds a new health check, tor connection, to our liveness
monitor. A monitor refactor is applied to the server creation such that
the scope of health check creation is managed within one function.
In this commit we add an extra config for enabling logging to an
external file when using embedded etcd. This can be useful when running
integration tests to see more details about etcd related issues.
As requested by users of node bundle software. They want to use the
wallet-unlock-password-file configuration option in their
default/template config file. This makes the first-time lnd setup a bit
more tricky since lnd will fail with an error if no wallet exists yet
while that config option is used.
The new wallet-unlock-allow-create option instructs lnd to not fail if
no wallet exists yet but instead spin up its unlocker RPC as it would
without the wallet-unlock-password-file being present.
This is not recommended for auto-provisioned or high-security systems
because the wallet creation RPC is unauthenticated and an attacker could
inject a seed while lnd is in that state.
