text: Q:
  
  How to connect Eris to different accounts to start a chain?
  
  I wanted to start a blockchain on my computer. For this, I am using Eris. I activated different accounts like root, validator, and participant account using eris chains start <ChainName> --init-dir <DIR> --publish this created different accounts on different ports on my machine. But now I have no idea how to connect them so that the chain is running and creating blocks.
  I thought of using eris chains ls -a to get the mapped ports but then what next?
  
  A:
  
  To connect the chains, you need to fill in the seeds field in the config.toml file. That field takes a string and the format of the field should be: seedIP1:seedPort1,seedIP2:seedPort2. So if you had three validators running on standard ports with the IPs of 111.111.111.111, 222.222.222.222 and 333.333.333.333 then your seeds field would look like this:
  seeds = "111.111.111.111:46656,222.222.222.222:46656,333.333.333.333:46656"
  One gotcha is to not have spaces within the string field.
  
  