[293] in Moira
Porting Athena to the Pyramid
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Rosenstein)
Fri May 3 22:29:22 1991
Date: Fri, 3 May 91 22:22:57 -0400
From: Mark Rosenstein <mar@MIT.EDU>
To: mailman!mhearn@uu.psi.com
Cc: moira@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Michael Hearn's message of Fri, 3 May 91 12:07:26 PDT <9105031907.AA00376@tds.com>
The "svc" table stores cluster information.
What athena calls a cluster is a group of workstations together with
their default resources such as printer, system binary fileserver,
etc. For example, my workstation is in a cluster called e40-vssys,
and its cluster information is:
syslib e40-vssys
zephyr arilinn
lpr nil
This means that the filesystem called "e40-vssys" contains my system
software, my workstation should contact the zephyr server called
arilinn, and the default printer for my workstation is "nil".
So the cluster table gives each cluster a name and description,
the mcmap is a mapping of machines to clusters, and svc assigns data
to a cluster. This is explained somewhat in the Moira user's guide
available on athena-dist.
-Mark
