# How to retrieve seed words from phoenixD service - anyone tried?

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**Created:** [October 22, 2026, 6:21pm UTC](https://community.start9.com/t/how-to-retrieve-seed-words-from-phoenixd-service-anyone-tried/5872 "2026-10-22T18:21:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![justbrian](https://community.start9.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/ecd19e/32.png) [@justbrian](https://community.start9.com/u/justbrian)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2026, 6:21pm UTC](https://community.start9.com/t/how-to-retrieve-seed-words-from-phoenixd-service-anyone-tried/5872/1 "2026-10-22T18:21:30Z")

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Curious if anyone has gone through the steps to SSH into their start9, log into the phoenixd service on their start9, and obtain the seed words for the wallet. Would love to get some help doing that, thanks!

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**Author:** ![h0mer](https://community.start9.com/user_avatar/community.start9.com/h0mer/32/20_2.png) [@h0mer](https://community.start9.com/u/h0mer)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2026, 6:50pm UTC](https://community.start9.com/t/how-to-retrieve-seed-words-from-phoenixd-service-anyone-tried/5872/2 "2026-10-22T18:50:42Z")

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start-cli package attach phoenixd -n phoenixd-sub – cat /phoenix/.phoenix/seed.dat

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**Author:** ![justbrian](https://community.start9.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/ecd19e/32.png) [@justbrian](https://community.start9.com/u/justbrian)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2026, 7:11pm UTC](https://community.start9.com/t/how-to-retrieve-seed-words-from-phoenixd-service-anyone-tried/5872/3 "2026-10-22T19:11:41Z")

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> [@h0mer](#):
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> start-cli package attach phoenixd -n phoenixd-sub

Hi Homer, thanks for the reply! I SSH’d into my server and tried the command, but got this error message back:

Filesystem I/O Error: No such file or directory (os error 2)

-- My start9 server version is 0.4.0.2 in case that helps

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**Author:** ![h0mer](https://community.start9.com/user_avatar/community.start9.com/h0mer/32/20_2.png) [@h0mer](https://community.start9.com/u/h0mer)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2026, 8:36pm UTC](https://community.start9.com/t/how-to-retrieve-seed-words-from-phoenixd-service-anyone-tried/5872/4 "2026-10-22T20:36:29Z")

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Is phoenixD runing? Works on my machine with the same StartOS.

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**Author:** ![justbrian](https://community.start9.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/ecd19e/32.png) [@justbrian](https://community.start9.com/u/justbrian)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2026, 9:48pm UTC](https://community.start9.com/t/how-to-retrieve-seed-words-from-phoenixd-service-anyone-tried/5872/5 "2026-10-22T21:48:13Z")

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Hmm, it is running with all the green checks. Strange. I’m using my local electrs service instead of ACINQ’s electrum server, could that affect it?

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**Author:** ![justbrian](https://community.start9.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/ecd19e/32.png) [@justbrian](https://community.start9.com/u/justbrian)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2026, 1:48am UTC](https://community.start9.com/t/how-to-retrieve-seed-words-from-phoenixd-service-anyone-tried/5872/6 "2026-10-23T01:48:14Z")

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I removed the " - " from your command and it worked! Used:

start-cli package attach phoenixd -n phoenixd-sub cat /phoenix/.phoenix/seed.dat