PUBLISH(8) — MAINTENANCE COMMANDS

NAME

publish − make UNIX directories into TOPS volumes

SYNOPSIS

/usr/tops/publish [ -r ] [ -t ] [ -d ] [ -aalias ] [ pathname ]

DESCRIPTION

Publish makes local UNIX directories available as TOPS volumes to clients on the TOPS network. The publisher of a UNIX directory must have full read, write and execute permission for that directory. If pathname/.rsrc does not exist, publish creates it. Names containing embedded blanks are valid, but must be quoted when used with the UNIX shell.

publish with no command line arguments will list all currently available volumes.

OPTIONS

−r Causes the volume to be published read only.

−t Prints the time of publication for each volume.

−d Unpublishes the named path.

−aNAME
Advertises the path to the network under the name "NAME"

An alias is the name under which a TOPS volume appears to TOPS clients. The default alias is the last component of the published UNIX path name. The UNIX pathname ‘/’ has the special default alias root.

After publishing a volume, publish spawns an hfs_build background process to take care of updating the HFS server.

Because all the information needed is stored in a file (/usr/tops/published), TOPS volumes remain published across server reboots. You publish a UNIX directory once and it remains published forever or until you unpublish it. Only the publisher of a volume or the super user or the owner of the published directory may unpublish that volume. Unpublishing a volume has no effect on current users of that volume. The who command yields information about current TOPS users unless this feature has been disabled on the TOPS server.

FILES

/usr/tops/hfs_build

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