solana/docs/src/running-validator.md

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title: Running a Validator
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This section describes how 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.
Move from gitbook to docusaurus, build docs in Travis CI (#10970) * fix: ignore unknown fields in more RPC responses * Remove mdbook infrastructure * Delete gitattributes and other theme related items Move all docs to /docs folder to support Docusaurus * all docs need to be moved to /docs * can be changed in the future Add Docusaurus infrastructure * initialize docusaurus repo Remove trailing whitespace, add support for eslint Change Docusaurus configuration to support `src` * No need to rename the folder! Change a setting and we're all good to go. * Fixing rebase items * Remove unneccessary markdown file, fix type * Some fonts are hard to read. Others, not so much. Rubik, you've been sidelined. Roboto, into the limelight! * As much as we all love tutorials, I think we all can navigate around a markdown file. Say goodbye, `mdx.md`. * Setup deployment infrastructure * Move docs job from buildkite to travic * Fix travis config * Add vercel token to travis config * Only deploy docs after merge * Docker rust env * Revert "Docker rust env" This reverts commit f84bc208e807aab1c0d97c7588bbfada1fedfa7c. * Build CLI usage from docker * Pacify shellcheck * Run job on PR and new commits for publication * Update README * Fix svg image building * shellcheck Co-authored-by: Michael Vines <mvines@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Ryan Shea <rmshea@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: publish-docs.sh <maintainers@solana.com> 2020-07-10 23:11:07 -06:00			`---`
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GitBook: [master] 156 pages and 12 assets modified 2019-09-23 03:38:34 +00:00
Clean up TdS/validator docs (#9638) 2020-04-21 16:59:09 -07:00			`This section describes how run a Solana validator node.`
GitBook: [master] 156 pages and 12 assets modified 2019-09-23 03:38:34 +00:00
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