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# Useful commands

## 🔧Service🔧

**Info**

```
curl -s http://localhost:26657/status | jq
curl -s http://localhost:26657/status | jq .result.sync_info
```

**Check node logs**

```
sudo journalctl -fu story-geth -o cat
sudo journalctl -fu story -o cat
```

**Check service status**

```
sudo systemctl status story
```

**Restart service**

```
sudo systemctl restart story-geth
sudo systemctl restart story
```

**Stop service**

```
sudo systemctl stop nolusd
```

**Start service**

```
sudo systemctl stop story-geth
sudo systemctl stop story
```

**Reload, disable, enable**

```
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl disable story
sudo systemctl disable story-geth
sudo systemctl enable story
sudo systemctl enable story-geth
```

**Your node peer**

```
echo "$(curl localhost:$(sed -n '/\[rpc\]/,/laddr/ { /laddr/ {s/.*://; s/".*//; p} }' $HOME/.story/story/config/config.toml)/status | jq -r '.result.node_info.id')@$(wget -qO- eth0.me):$(sed -n '/Address to listen for incoming connection/{n;p;}' $HOME/.story/story/config/config.toml | sed 's/.*://; s/".*//')"
```

**Your enode**

```
geth --exec "admin.nodeInfo.enode" attach ~/.story/geth/odyssey/geth.ipc
```

***

## 🔗Validator Management🔗

**Validator info**

```
curl localhost:$(sed -n '/\[rpc\]/,/laddr/ { /laddr/ {s/.*://; s/".*//; p} }' $HOME/.story/story/config/config.toml)/status | jq
```

**Check Validator public key**

```
story validator export
```

**Check Validator private key**

```
cat $HOME/.story/story/config/private_key.txt
```

***

## ⚙️Staking⚙️ <a href="#token-management" id="token-management"></a>

**Add operator**

```
story validator add-operator --operator <OPERATOR_EVM_ADDRESS> --private-key $(cat $HOME/.story/story/config/private_key.txt | grep "PRIVATE_KEY" | awk -F'=' '{print $2}')
```

**Unstake from yourself**

```
story validator unstake --validator-pubkey $(story validator export | grep "Compressed Public Key (base64)" | awk '{print $NF}') --unstake 1000000000000000000 --private-key $(cat $HOME/.story/story/config/private_key.txt | grep "PRIVATE_KEY" | awk -F'=' '{print $2}')
```

**Unstake**

```
story validator unstake --validator-pubkey <VALIDATOR_PUB_KEY_IN_BASE64> --unstake 1000000000000000000 --private-key $(cat $HOME/.story/story/config/private_key.txt | grep "PRIVATE_KEY" | awk -F'=' '{print $2}')
```

**Delegate to yourself**

```
story validator stake --validator-pubkey $(story validator export | grep "Compressed Public Key (base64)" | awk '{print $NF}') --stake 1000000000000000000 --private-key $(cat $HOME/.story/story/config/private_key.txt | grep "PRIVATE_KEY" | awk -F'=' '{print $2}')
```

**Delegate**

```
story validator stake --validator-pubkey <VALIDATOR_PUB_KEY_IN_BASE64> --stake 1000000000000000000 --private-key $(cat $HOME/.story/story/config/private_key.txt | grep "PRIVATE_KEY" | awk -F'=' '{print $2}')
```

**Delegate on behalf of other delegator**

```
story validator stake-on-behalf --validator-pubkey <VALIDATOR_PUB_KEY_IN_BASE64> --delegator-pubkey <DELEGATOR_PUB_KEY_IN_BASE64> --stake 1000000000000000000 --private-key $(cat $HOME/.story/story/config/private_key.txt | grep "PRIVATE_KEY" | awk -F'=' '{print $2}')
```

**Unstake on behalf of other delegator. To do so, you must be a registered authorized operator for this delegator**

```
story validator unstake-on-behalf --validator-pubkey <VALIDATOR_PUB_KEY_IN_BASE64> --delegator-pubkey <DELEGATOR_PUB_KEY_IN_BASE64> --unstake 1000000000000000000 --private-key $(cat $HOME/.story/story/config/private_key.txt | grep "PRIVATE_KEY" | awk -F'=' '{print $2}')
```

**Remove operator**

```
story validator remove-operator --operator <OPERATOR_EVM_ADDRESS> --private-key $(cat $HOME/.story/story/config/private_key.txt | grep "PRIVATE_KEY" | awk -F'=' '{print $2}')
```

**Set or change withdrawal address**

```
story validator set-withdrawal-address --withdrawal-address <YOUR_EVM_ADDRESS> --private-key $(cat $HOME/.story/story/config/private_key.txt | grep "PRIVATE_KEY" | awk -F'=' '{print $2}')
```

## ⛓️Geth commands⛓️

**Check the latest block**

```
geth --exec "eth.blockNumber" attach ~/.story/geth/odyssey/geth.ipc
```

**Peers your client is connected to**

```
geth --exec "admin.peers" attach ~/.story/geth/odyssey/geth.ipc
```

**Check if syncing is still in progress: will output "true" if geth is syncing**

```
geth --exec "eth.syncing" attach ~/.story/geth/odyssey/geth.ipc
```

**Check gas price**

```
geth --exec "eth.gasPrice" attach ~/.story/geth/odyssey/geth.ipc
```

**Check account balance**

```
geth --exec "eth.getBalance('<YOUR_EVM_ADDRESS>')" attach ~/.story/geth/odyssey/geth.ipc
```