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waisserver - serves WAIS requests
waisserver [ -p [ port_number
] ] [ -s ] [ -d directory ] [ -e [ pathname ] ] [ -l log_level ] [-u user ] [
-v ]
- waisserver.d
- [ same arguments ]
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 its
I/O sockets. See the examples below for inetd.conf.
In addition, waisserver
can act like an anonymous FTP server. When the server is given a document
of type "FTP" as a relevant document, it will build a result list from
the directory of the file. Subdirectories may be listed using by adding
them to the relevant document list.
Note that a minimal level of security
is present in two forms:
1. The server will never present directories
above the default server directory (-d option, described below).
2. The
server will only build a directory listing from a file of type FTP, and
that file must be in the specified database.
- -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.
- -l log_level
- set logging level. Currently
only levels 0, 1, 5 and 10 are meaningful: Level 0 means log nothing (silent).
Level 1 logs only errors and warnings (messages of HIGH priority), level
5 logs messages of MEDIUM priority (like client init info). Level 10 logs
everything.
- -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.
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)
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
The diagnostics produced by the waisserver
are meant to be self-explanatory.
Malformed protocol packets can cause
the server to dump core (segmentation violation). These are logged in the
server’s log file.
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