beoserv

Name

beoserv – The daemon that serves IP addresses and boot files to compute nodes

Synopsis

beoserv [-h] [-V, –version] [-v] [-f file] [-n file]

Description

The beoserv daemon is started by the ClusterWare service and responds to to DHCP, PXEboot, TFTP, and TCP get-file requests from compute node clients. The daemon reports cluster events to /var/log/messages.

Options

-h, --help

Display a help message and exit.

-V, --version

Display version information and exit.

-v

Increase verbosity level. Each additional ‘v’ increases verbosity.

-f file

Read configuration from file instead of /etc/beowulf/config.

-n file

Write unrecognized nodes to file instead of /var/beowulf/unknown_addresses.

Examples

Start daemon using file myconfig.

[root@cluster ~] # /usr/sbin/beoserv -f /etc/beowulf/myconfig