nws-hostadmin(1)
NAME
nws-hostadmin - helps to manage Network Weather Service hosts
SYNOPSIS
nws-hostadmin command [[-b path][-B path][-f path][-m path][-M path][-l login][-L login][-s switches][-S switches] host ...]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page explains the nws-hostadmin script. The nws-hostadmin
script can assist you in the task of tracking NWS hosts. It is especially useful for keeping track of NWS hosts running on remote
machines.
Here is a list of commands you can specify
- add
- adds the host to the NWS hosts data base (see below): no operation is performed on the host itself.
- forget
- removers the host from the NWS hosts data base (see below): no operation is performed on the hosts itself.
- halt
- send a HOST_DIE message to the host. The host will exit upon receipt.
- kill
- uses SIGKILL to stop the host: to be done only if hosts is unresposive to halt.
- start
- start specified services on the hosts (ie nameserver, sensor or memory).
- test
- dusplay the status of the host.
- host has the format machine[:type[:port][,type[:port]..]] there type can be memory, nameserver or sensor.
OPTIONS
- -b path
- use the path to find the NWS binaries for the next host. Default path is $HOME/nws/bin.
- -B path
- search NWS binaries in path for all hosts specified. Deafault is $HOME/nws/bin.
- -l username
- use username as login name for the next host. Default is $USER.
- -L username
- use username as login name for all specified hosts. Default is $USER.
BUGS
Bugs list is at http://nws.cs.ucsb.edu. <http://nws.cs.ucsb.edu>
AUTHOR
NWS is an original idea of Rich Wolski Rich Wolski (rich@cs.ucsb.edu)
who came up with the original nws_memory.
Neil Spring, Jim Hayes (jhayes@cs.ucsd.edu) and Martin Swany maintained
and enhanced it.
Graziano Obertelli (graziano@cs.ucsb.edu) currently maintains NWS and
wrote this man page.