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NAME

       proofserv - PROOF (The Parallel ROOT Facility)

DESCRIPTION

       Using  PROOF  (The  Parallel  ROOT  Facility)  one can analyze trees in
       parallel on a cluster of computers. The PROOF system  consists  of  the
       proofd(1) from-end program which is started via inetd(8).

       proofd  takes care of user authentication and overlays itself then with
       the desired version of the proofserv(1) executable.

       The proofserv(1) is a basically the same as the ROOT interactive module
       root(1),  except  that  it  reads its commands from a socket instead of
       from the terminal.

       Since it is a remote server it will not do graphics  and  therefore  is
       not linked with any graphics libraries (Motif, X11, etc.).

       proofserv  is  started  by the daemon proofd(1) on request by the user.
       It is not a command to be executed by the user directly.

       Note, that if proofserv is  passed  any  arguments,  it  will  use  the
       libProofx interface, rather than the standard libProof interface.

SEE ALSO

       proofd(1) , root(1) , rootd(1)

       More information can be found at the ROOT website: http://root.cern.ch

ORIGINAL AUTHORS

       The ROOT team (see web page above):
              Rene Brun and Fons Rademakers

COPYRIGHT

       This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
       under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License  as  published
       by  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or
       (at your option) any later version.

       This library is distributed in the hope that it  will  be  useful,  but
       WITHOUT   ANY   WARRANTY;   without   even   the  implied  warranty  of
       MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR  A  PARTICULAR  PURPOSE.   See  the  GNU
       Lesser General Public License for more details.

       You  should  have  received  a  copy  of  the GNU Lesser General Public
       License along with this library; if not, write  to  the  Free  Software
       Foundation,  Inc.,  51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301
       USA

AUTHOR

       This  manual  page  was   written   by   Christian   Holm   Christensen
       <cholm@nbi.dk>,  for  the  Debian  GNU/Linux system (but may be used by
       others).