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.\"Created by graziano obertelli <graziano@cs.ucsb.edu>
.\"
.TH nws-hostadmin 1 "February 7, 2003" "nws-hostadmin"

.SH NAME
nws-hostadmin \- helps to manage Network Weather Service hosts

.SH SYNOPSIS
.B nws-hostadmin 
command [[-b path][-B path][-f path][-m path][-M path][-l login][-L login][-s switches][-S switches] host ...]


.SH DESCRIPTION
This manual page explains the 
.B nws-hostadmin
script. The 
.B 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 

.B add
.RS
adds the host to the NWS hosts data base (see below): no operation is
performed on the host itself.
.RE

.B forget
.RS
removers the host from the NWS hosts data base (see below): no operation
is performed on the hosts itself.
.RE

.B halt
.RS
send a HOST_DIE message to the host. The host will exit upon receipt.
.RE

.B kill
.RS
uses SIGKILL to stop the host: to be done only if hosts is unresposive to
.B halt.
.RE

.B start
.RS
start specified services on the hosts (ie nameserver, sensor or memory).
.RE

.B test
.RS
dusplay the status of the host.
.RE

.I host 
has the format machine[:type[:port][,type[:port]..]] there type can be 
memory, nameserver or sensor.

.B
.SH OPTIONS
.BI -b\ path
.RS
use the 
.I path 
to find the NWS binaries for the next host.
Default path is $HOME/nws/bin.
.RE

.B -B\ path
.RS
search NWS binaries in 
.I path
for all hosts specified. Deafault is $HOME/nws/bin.
.RE

.B -l\ username
.RS
use 
.I username
as login name for the next host. Default is $USER.
.RE

.B -L\ username
.RS
use 
.I username
as login name for all specified hosts. Default is $USER.
.RE


.SH BUGS
.P
Bugs list is at 
.UR http://nws.cs.ucsb.edu
http://nws.cs.ucsb.edu.
.UE

.SH AUTHOR
NWS is an original idea of Rich Wolski Rich Wolski (rich@cs.ucsb.edu) who
came up with the original
.B nws_memory.

.P 
Neil Spring, Jim Hayes (jhayes@cs.ucsd.edu) and Martin Swany maintained
and enhanced it. 

.P 
Graziano Obertelli (graziano@cs.ucsb.edu) currently maintains NWS and
wrote this man page.

.SH SEE ALSO
.BR nws_sensor(1),
.BR nws_search(1),
.BR nws_nameserver(1),
.BR nws_extract(1)
.BR halt_activity(1)