NAME
host_aliases - Sun Grid Engine host aliases file format
DESCRIPTION
All Sun Grid Engine components use a hostname resolving service
provided by the communication library to identify hosts via a unique
hostname. The communication library itself references standard UNIX
directory services such as DNS, NIS and /etc/hosts to resolve
hostnames. In rare cases these standard services cannot be setup
cleanly and Sun Grid Engine communication daemons running on different
hosts are unable to automatically determine a unique hostname for one
or all hosts which can be used on all hosts. In such situations a Sun
Grid Engine host aliases file can be used to provide the communication
daemons with a private and consistent hostname resolution database.
The location for the host aliases file is
<sge_root>/<cell>/common/host_aliases.
FORMAT
For each host a single line must be provided with a blank, comma or
semicolon separated list of hostname aliases. The first alias is
defined to be the unique hostname which will be used by all Sun Grid
Engine components using the hostname aliasing service of the
communication library.
SEE ALSO
sge_intro(1),
COPYRIGHT
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