WAISSERVER
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: Fri Sep 13 1991
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NAME
waisserver - serves WAIS requests
SYNOPSIS
waisserver
[ -p [ port_number ] ] [ -s ] [ -d directory ] [ -e [ pathname ] ] [-u
user ] [ -v ]
- waisserver.d
-
[ same arguments ]
DESCRIPTION
Part of the Wide Area Information Server system.
waisserver will take WAIS requests from a TCP port or standard-io and
return the appropriate response. If the name of the command is
waisserver.d, then it is assumed it is running from inetd, and it uses
stdio for it's I/O sockets. See the examples below for inetd.conf.
OPTIONS
- -p [ port ]
-
Listen to the port. If the port is supplied, then that port number is
used. If it is not supplied then the Z39.50 port (210) is used.
- -s
-
listen to standard I/O for queries.
- -d directory
-
Use this directory as the default location of the indexes. Therefore if
the directory were /usr/local, then the database foo would be found in
/usr/local/foo (see waisindex for how to create an index)
-e [ filename ]-
Redirect error output to pathname, if supplied, or to /dev/null.
Error output defaults to stderr, unless -s is selected,
in which case it defaults to /dev/null.
-u user-
Set the server's user id to the user specified after attaching the tcp-port.
This is only used if the server is started as root.
-v-
Print the current version and date of the server.
EXAMPLES
The following are examples of waisserver usage:
- waisserver -p 8000 -d wais-sources -e server.log
-
Runs waisserver as a standalone server, using tcp port 8000 on directory
wais-sources writing messages to server.log
Some example inetd.conf entries (note, these must be on one line in
inted.conf):
hpux 7.0/800, Interactive/386 2.2.1:
- z3950 stream tcp nowait root /etc/waisserver waisserver.d
-
-d /wais-sources -e /server.log
Ultrix 4.1:
- z3950 stream tcp nowait /etc/waisserver waisserver.d
-
-d /wais-sources -e /server.log
Also, add the next line to /etc/services, and tickle your YP server:
z3950 210/tcp # wide area information server (wais)
SEE ALSO
waissearch(1), waisindex(1), waissearch-gmacs(1), xwais(1), xwaisq(1),
inetd(8C), inetd.conf(5)
Wide Area Information Servers Concepts by Brewster Kahle.
Brewster@think.com
DIAGNOSTICS
The diagnostics produced by the waisserver is meant to be self-explanatory.
BUGS
Under BSD logging information is sent to standard output, instead of
standard error. This means the -e and -s options won't work as expected.
Index
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- OPTIONS
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- EXAMPLES
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- SEE ALSO
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- DIAGNOSTICS
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- BUGS
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