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Environment variables

Available environment variables:
  • BARK_VERBOSE (1 or true): set verbose logging
  • BARK_QUIET (1 or true): set no logging
  • BARK_DATADIR: set the data directory to use
  • BARK_LOG: set a env_logger-style filter for logging (f.e. info or info,bark=trace, …)
Default data directoryTo check your default data directory, run the following command:

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Configuration file

Go to your Bark data directory and you should find a config.toml file. Here are the available configuration variables:
  • server_address: the address of your Ark server
  • esplora_address: the address of the Esplora HTTP REST server to use
  • bitcoind_address: the address of the bitcoind RPC server to use
  • bitcoind_cookiefile: the path to the bitcoind rpc cookie file
  • bitcoind_user: the bitcoind RPC username
  • bitcoind_pass: the bitcoind RPC password
  • vtxo_refresh_expiry_threshold: the number of blocks before expiry to refresh VTXOs
  • vtxo_exit_margin: an upper limit of the number of blocks we expect to need to safely exit the VTXOs
  • htlc_recv_claim_delta: the number of blocks to claim a HTLC-recv VTXO
  • fallback_fee_rate: a fallback feerate to use in sat/kWu when we fail to retrieve a feerate from the configured bitcoind/Esplora connection
  • round_tx_required_confirmations: the number of confirmations required before considering a round transaction fully confirmed
Check the configuration struct on the bark repository here.