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beoserv

Name

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

Synopsis

/usr/sbin/beoserv [-h] [-V, --version] [-v] [-f file] [-n file]

Description

This is the daemon that responds to DHCP and PXE requests from compute nodes and serves out their boot images. The daemon is started by /etc/rc.d/init.d/beowulf at master node boot time.

Options

-h, --help

Display a help message and exit.

-V, --version

Display version information and exit.

-v

Increase verbosity level

-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

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