Technical question if I may, don't laugh I'm a Linux n00b.

My server says DarkCoin Started Successfully, however when I do ./darkcoind masternode list | grep (My MN IP address) I get nothing back.

I'm going down the VPS route, this is a new instance that I generated from an existing backup of another instance.

Do I need to open port 9999?

How do I do that in Linux?

RC4 testing!

2-4 weeks from now wtf. I bet the fucking trolls and noobs dump because there will be no good news until august even if kris reviews it. If he finds any bugs or another delay and panic will kick in. drk slowly goto 0.09 - 0.008 or maybe lower! Right now buy support is only from a few drk followers, we will have to wait and hope all goes well over the next month for fresh new btc...damn.

Is there a Linux noob guide to updating Masternodes ?

If not, could someone make a idiots guide to updating and post it over at darkcointalk 

Also, in case anyone hasn't figured out how to update and restart their masternodes with the newfangled cold/remote setup, here is what worked for me:

On remote:

darkcoind stop
mv darkcoind darkcoind-old-version-number
wget http://www.darkcoin.io/downloads/rc/darkcoind
chmod 755 darkcoind
darkcoind

...wait for it to sync up if needed


On local:

Stop local client if running
Edit your darkcoin.conf and put back in:
masternode=1
masternodeprivkey=your-priv-key-for-that-masternode
masternodeaddr=x.x.x.x:9999

Rename your copy wallet for that masternode back to wallet.dat and fire up the local client or daemon
Wait for it to sync up if needed, then
masternode start 'your-wallet-passphrase'

- you should get 'masternode started sucessfully' and you can now take the local wallet offline again, your masternode should appear at http://drk.poolhash.org/masternode.html within a minute or two.

Testnet Phase

Development on RC4 is nearing an end and we expect that we’ll be firing up testnet in the coming week. Depending on what we find, testing and QA should take 2 to 4 weeks.

IMO, massive LTC -> DRK after RC4.