solana/docs/src/running-validator.md

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title: Running a Validator
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This section describes how to run a Solana validator node.

There are several clusters available to connect to; see [choosing a Cluster](cli/choose-a-cluster.md) for an overview of each.
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Fix typo (#18595) (#18596) (cherry picked from commit ab45532b5256b8422c624d579970f97ba6fd779e) Co-authored-by: Tyera Eulberg <teulberg@gmail.com> 2021-07-12 08:02:06 +00:00			`This section describes how to run a Solana validator node.`
GitBook: [master] 156 pages and 12 assets modified 2019-09-23 03:38:34 +00:00
Fix typo (#18595) (#18596) (cherry picked from commit ab45532b5256b8422c624d579970f97ba6fd779e) Co-authored-by: Tyera Eulberg <teulberg@gmail.com> 2021-07-12 08:02:06 +00:00			`There are several clusters available to connect to; see [choosing a Cluster](cli/choose-a-cluster.md) for an overview of each.`