From 6c8585b01e2f29e31a8c6c2be097a4960496db79 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Julian Meyer <julian.meyer@coinbase.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2026 07:34:37 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] fix: base-consensus mode

---
 base-consensus-entrypoint | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/base-consensus-entrypoint b/base-consensus-entrypoint
index c3d0dbd55d..cd2801fce5 100755
--- a/base-consensus-entrypoint
+++ b/base-consensus-entrypoint
@@ -44,4 +44,9 @@ export BASE_NODE_P2P_ADVERTISE_IP=$PUBLIC_IP
 
 echo "$BASE_NODE_L2_ENGINE_AUTH_RAW" > "$BASE_NODE_L2_ENGINE_AUTH"
 
-exec ./base-consensus
+if [[ -n "${BASE_NODE_SOURCE_L2_RPC:-}" ]]; then
+  echo "Running base-consensus in follow mode because BASE_NODE_SOURCE_L2_RPC is set"
+  exec ./base-consensus follow
+else
+  exec ./base-consensus node
+fi