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Launch companion processes

Launch companion processes

Launch validator companion processes for the first time.

Axelar validators need two companion processes called vald and tofnd.

Choose a tofnd password

Similar to your Axelar keyring, your tofnd storage is encrypted with a password you choose. Your password must have at least 8 characters.

In what follows you will execute a shell script to launch the companion processes. Your keyring and tofnd passwords are supplied to the shell script via KEYRING_PASSWORD and TOFND_PASSWORD environment variables.

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Caution: In the following instructions you must substitute your chosen keyring and tofnd passwords for my-secret-password and my-tofnd-password.

Launch companion processes

Launch vald, tofnd for the first time:

KEYRING_PASSWORD=my-secret-password TOFND_PASSWORD=my-tofnd-password ./scripts/validator-tools-host.sh -n mainnet

To recover your secret keys from mnemonics, use -p path_to_broadcaster_mnemonic -z path_to_tofnd_mnemonic. These flags work only on a completely fresh state.

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Danger: You created new secret key material. You must backup this data. Failure to backup this data could result in loss of funds. See Backup your secret data for detailed instructions.

View logs

View the streaming logs for vald, tofnd:

tail -f ~/.axelar/logs/vald.log
tail -f ~/.axelar/logs/tofnd.log
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