grid: register - registers a resource with a known
registry(4)
SYNOPSIS
grid/register [
option ...
] {
command ...
}
DESCRIPTION
Register
takes a program that serves a namespace using the 9P protocol on its standard input
and registers it with a known
registery(4).
(See
intro(5)
for a description of the protocol.)
It then marshals the service by listening for incoming connections and exporting the namespace across them.
Register
prints out various status messages to
stdout
in the form which may be read by
grid-monitor(1).
OPTIONS
-u maxusers
Specifies the maximum number of connections to the resource at any one time. If not given, any number of connections are allowed.
-e n
Tells
register
to exit after the last connection has gone away.
N
is a threshold value, so that
register
will not exit upon the last connection going away until the number of incoming connections has reached at least
n.
-a 'name=value'
Specifies the name and value of an attribute to be listed as belonging to the resource when registered with the
registry(4).
-A address
Allows the user to specify the address for the service to announce on.
Address
takes the form
tcp!machine!port
-m
Includes the amount of free main memory as part of the attributes list.