XBNETSERV(8)

NAME
xbnetserv - remote server process

SYNOPSIS
xbnetserv

DESCRIPTION
xbnetserv is the remote server process for the GNUbatch batch scheduler system.

It serves 3 purposes

1.  It accepts jobs from other hosts submitted by gbch-rr(1).

2.  It accepts jobs and administration requests from DOS and Windows machines.

3.  It supports API operations.

It is normally invoked by the system startup routines, or otherwise by gbch-start(1).

It takes no arguments from the command line (and ignores any which are supplied). Information, in respect of other machines to connect to is read from the file gnubach.hosts.

FILES
gnubatch.hosts host names and descriptions

gnubatch.conf master configuration file

btint-config message file

btsched_reps error log file

btufile user data

ENVIRONMENT

SPOOLDIR
    alternative location for spool directory

INTERNET PORTS
xbnetserv uses 2 ports

        gnubach-netsrv

(N.B. no second "e") to accept incoming jobs on TCP from gbch-rr(1), and on UDP from the DOS/Windows interface, and 2 further ports

        gnubatch-api

to communicate with the API library.

The port numbers are set up in the /etc/services file when GNUbatch is first installed.

SEE ALSO
gbch-r(1), gbch-start(1), gbch-quit(1), gnubatch.conf(5), gnubatch.hosts(5), btsched(8).

DIAGNOSTICS
xbnetserv runs as a "daemon process" and diagnostics, apart from those detected when it is first started, are not usually written to any terminal but to the file btsched_reps.

In the event of any problems this file should be examined.

COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

AUTHOR
John M Collins, Xi Software Ltd.