How to set node address for new gaiad client?

[ebuchman]

Previous with gaiacli there was ~/.gaiacli/config/config.toml that we could put a default chain-id and node in for all gaiacli commands.

Does an equivalent exist now that it's just one gaiad binary and it uses the app.toml and config.toml? Can the node and chain-id be set in one of those or in another config ?

Haven't managed to find anything in a migration doc.

Also it seems like these docs are stale ? https://hub.cosmos.network/main/delegators/delegator-guide-cli.html#setting-up-gaiad . There doesn't seem to be a gaiad config command ?

I think we may be missing a migration/upgrade doc specifically targeting gaiacli users (related also to #8633)

[ebuchman]

Also would be great to be able to set a default for eg. the keyring-backend as well. For folks using hardware wallets they should just be able to use test and not need to enter any passwords or access their system keychain ...

[clevinson]

The env variables populating into CLI got addressed recently, but looks like it only got fixed for server commands.

I just reopened this issue (#8179) so we can get that taken care of.

For gaiad specific docs (anything on hub.cosmos.network as opposed to docs.cosmos.network), should we have an issue on the gaia repo instead of here?

[clevinson]

Sorry i should have clarified as well earlier that the missing gaiad config command is also something we should address.

I think this got missed when we migrated to a single application binary. I'll leave this issue open for tracking the upgrade to docs (@AmauryM is working on this from our team), and for re-introducing the gaiad config command we'll be tracking that in #8529.

[amaury1093]

This is closed in v0.42.5: https://github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/releases/tag/v0.42.5