I wanted to start a blockchain on my computer. For this, I am using Eris. I activated different accounts like root, validator, and participant account using eris chains start <ChainName> --init-dir <DIR> --publish this created different accounts on different ports on my machine. But now I have no idea how to connect them so that the chain is running and creating blocks.
I thought of using eris chains ls -a to get the mapped ports but then what next?
To connect the chains, you need to fill in the seeds field in the config.toml file. That field takes a string and the format of the field should be: seedIP1:seedPort1,seedIP2:seedPort2. So if you had three validators running on standard ports with the IPs of 111.111.111.111, 222.222.222.222 and 333.333.333.333 then your seeds field would look like this:
seeds = "111.111.111.111:46656,222.222.222.222:46656,333.333.333.333:46656"
One gotcha is to not have spaces within the string field.
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I had one more doubt on starting a chain. It is mentioned on the Monax website Chain deploying documentation that we copy config.toml file from default to chain folder
cp ../default/config.toml .The problem here is the default folder is empty. The folder gets created if it is not present when I use 'make' a chain. So in place of config.toml from the default should I use config.toml from one of the accounts folder? – Rajat Feb 2 '17 at 11:04 -
