Setting up for a Networked Database

The following changes must be made by your system manager in order to enable SNODB to update the database on your node, and accept database updates from your node, via ftp. (Note that SNODB will not be running in networked mode in this release but that it will be in the near future.)

UNIX:

Add the following line to /etc/services:
zserv 346/tcp #server for zftp

Add the following line to /etc/inetd.conf:
zserv stream tcp nowait root <path to zserv>/zserv zserv

Reset inetd with one of the following commands:

      refresh -s inetd                ; AIX
      inetd -l                        ; HP/UX
      /sbin/init.d/inetd stop--start  ; Alpha/OSF
      kill -HUP <inetd PID>           ; others

On AIX systems, CERN's CSPACK manual recommends that the following line be added to the file /etc/environment, setting the shell variable xrf_messages to no to prevent FORTRAN run-time messages from being printed:
xrf_messages=no
These messages disturb the protocol used between ZSERV and PAWSERV servers and the ZFTP or PAW clients.

Those of you who use yellow pages should see Chapter 13 of CERN's CSPACK manual for a couple of more details on setting up these services.

VMS:

the steps outlined below apply to those machines running MULTINET TCP/IP. See Chapter 13 of CERN's CSPACK Manual for information on other systems.

Add the following line to MULTINET:HOSTS.LOCAL
SERVICE : TCP : 346 : ZSERV

Compile and activate this change by typing:


      MULTINET HOST_TABLE COMPILE
      @MULTINET:INSTALL_DATABASES
      @MULTINET:START_SERVER

Define the server to MULTINET:
MULTINET CONFIGURE /SERVERS

A dialog similar to the following should follow:

      SERVER-CONFIG>add zserv
      Protocol: [TCP] tcp
      TCP port number: 346
      Program to run: CERN:[PRO.EXE]ZSERV.EXE
      SERVER-CONFIG>RESTART