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grid</a>), the Introducer will already be running, and you'll need to
create a node.</p>
- <p>To construct an introducer, choose a new base directory for it (the
- name of the directory is up to you). We'll call this directory $INTRODIR.
- Now run <cite>tahoe create-introducer $INTRODIR</cite>, which will create
- the directory for you. Now start the introducer by running <cite>tahoe
- start $INTRODIR</cite>. After it starts, there will be a file named
+ <p>To construct an introducer, create a new base directory for it (the name
+ of the directory is up to you), cd into it, and run <cite>tahoe
+ create-introducer .</cite>. Now start the introducer by running <cite>tahoe
+ start .</cite>. After it starts, there will be a file named
<cite>introducer.furl</cite> in that base directory. This file contains
the URL which the nodes must use in order to connect to this
introducer.</p>
- <p>To construct a node, choose a new empty base directory (again, the
- name of the directory is up to you), which we'll call $NODEDIR. Now run
- <cite>tahoe create-client $NODEDIR</cite>, which will create the
- directory. Acquire a copy of the <cite>introducer.furl</cite> from the
- introducer and put it into this directory, then run <cite>tahoe start
- $NODEDIR</cite>. After that, the node should be off and running. The
- first thing it will do is connect to the introducer and get itself
- connected to all other nodes on the grid.</p>
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- <p>If you're only running a single node, the usual base directory for it
- is ~/.tahoe . The <cite>tahoe</cite> executable will use this as a
- default if you don't provide a $NODEDIR explicitly. So an easy way to set
- up your node is to run <cite>tahoe create-client</cite>, copy in the
- <cite>introducer.furl</cite>, then run <cite>tahoe start</cite>.</p>
+ <p>To construct a node run <cite>tahoe create-client</cite>, which will
+ create <cite>~/.tahoe</cite> to be the node's base directory. Acquire a copy
+ of the <cite>introducer.furl</cite> from the introducer and put it into this
+ directory, then run <cite>tahoe start</cite>. After that, the node should be
+ off and running. The first thing it will do is connect to the introducer and
+ get itself connected to all other nodes on the grid.</p>
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