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Installing SPECTRUM for Solstice Enterprise Manager
2-20 Using SPMA Applications in a Stand-alone Mode
By default, the pnisd daemon will copy the NIS database to
the /tmp directory on the local machine, and will refresh the
database every 5 minutes. To change these default values,
follow the pnisd command with the following switches:
[-i minutes] [-d path]
where:
-i defines the refresh interval; the default is 5 minutes
-d defines the path to which the NIS database will be
dumped on the local machine; the default directory is
/tmp
If you add the switches, the correct lines will look like this:
if [ -f $SPMA/bin/pnisd ] ; then
if $SPMA/bin/pnisd -i <min> -d <path>; then
echo “Starting pnisd daemon”
fi
fi
d. Save and close the file, and re-boot your workstation for the
above changes to take effect.
Using SPMA Applications in a Stand-alone Mode
Although all of the SPECTRUM for Solstice Enterprise Manager
Portable Management Applications are designed to run in conjunction
with Solstice Enterprise Manager, you can also run any and all of them
in a stand-alone mode either by using the Stand-alone Launcher or by
typing the appropriate command sequence from any command line.
To operate in stand-alone mode, you need make no adjustments to the
NOTE
For help information about this daemon, type pnisd -h at any command
line; for version number information, type pnisd -v. Note that neither of
these commands will start the pnisd daemon.
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