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NAME

       upclient - Initializes the client portion of the Update Server

SYNOPSIS

       upclient <hostname> [-crypt] [-clear] [-t <retry time>]
           [-verbose]* <dir>+ [-help]

DESCRIPTION

       The upclient command initializes the client portion of the Update
       Server. In the conventional configuration, its binary file is located
       in the /usr/lib/openafs directory on a file server machine.

       The upclient command is not normally issued at the command shell prompt
       but rather placed into a file server machine’s /etc/openafs/BosConfig
       file with the bos create command. If it is ever issued at the command
       shell prompt, the issuer must be logged onto a database server machine
       as the local superuser "root".

       The upclient process periodically checks that all files in each local
       directory named by the dir argument match the files in the
       corresponding directory on the source machine named by the hostname
       argument. If a file does not match, the upclient process requests the
       source copy from the upserver process running on the source machine.

       By default, the upclient process requests that the upserver process
       encrypt the data before transferring it.  Use the -clear flag to
       request unencrypted transfer if appropriate. (The -crypt flag
       explicitly sets the default.)

       In the conventional configuration, separate instances of the upclient
       process request data from the /usr/lib/openafs and /etc/openafs/server
       directories, except on machines for which the system control machine is
       also the binary distribution machine for the machine’s system type. The
       conventional names for the separate instances are "upclientbin" and
       "upclientetc" respectively.

       The upclient and upserver processes always mutually authenticate,
       whether or not the data they pass is encrypted; they use the key with
       the highest key version number in the /etc/openafs/server/KeyFile file
       to construct a server ticket for mutual authentication.

       This command does not use the syntax conventions of the AFS command
       suites. Provide the command name and all option names in full.

CAUTIONS

       Do not use the Update Server to distribute the contents of the
       /etc/openafs/server directory using the -clear option.  The contents of
       this directory are sensitive.

OPTIONS

       <hostname>
           Names either the cell’s system control machine (if the requested
           directory is /etc/openafs/server), or the binary distribution
           machine for the local machine’s CPU and operating system type (if
           the requested directory is /usr/lib/openafs).

       -crypt
           Requests the transfer of data from the upserver process in
           encrypted form. This is the default; this flag just sets the
           default explicitly.  Do not use this flag with the -clear flag.

       -clear
           Requests transfer of data from the upserver process in unencrypted
           form. Provide this flag or the -crypt flag, but not both.

       -t <retry time>
           Specifies how often to check for changes in each specified
           directory, as a number of seconds. If this argument is omitted, the
           default is 300 (5 minutes). This argument determines the maximum
           amount of time it takes for a change made on the source machine to
           propagate to this machine.

       -verbose*
           Writes a trace of the upclient process’s operations on the standard
           output stream, which usually corresponds to the machine console.
           Provide one, two, or three instances of the flag; each additional
           instance generates increasingly numerous and detailed messages.

       <dir>+
           Names each directory to check for modified files. The conventional
           choices are the following:

           ·   /usr/lib/openafs, in which case the recommended name for the
               process (assigned with the -instance argument to the bos create
               command) is "upclientbin". The hostname is the binary
               distribution machine for the local machine’s system type. You
               may wish to use the -clear flag for the /usr/lib/openafs
               directory, since binaries are not particularly sensitive and
               encrypting them takes system resources.

           ·   /etc/openafs/server, in which case the recommended name for the
               process (assigned with the -instance argument to the bos create
               command) is "upclientetc". The hostname is the cell’s system
               control machine. Use the -crypt flag for the
               /etc/openafs/server directory, since it contains the KeyFile
               file and other data vital to cell security.

       -help
           Prints the online help for this command. All other valid options
           are ignored.

EXAMPLES

       The following bos create command creates an "upclientbin" process on
       the machine "fs4.abc.com" that refers to the machine "fs1.abc.com" as
       the source for the /usr/lib/openafs directory (thus "fs1.abc.com" is
       the binary distribution machine for machines of "fs4.abc.com"’s type).
       The files in the /usr/lib/openafs directory are distributed every 120
       seconds.  The command requests transfer in unencrypted form.

          % bos create  -server fs4.abc.com -instance upclientbin -type simple \
                        -cmd "/usr/lib/openafs/upclient fs1.abc.com -clear \
                        -t 120 /usr/lib/openafs"

PRIVILEGE REQUIRED

       The issuer must be logged in as the superuser "root" on a file server
       machine to issue the command at a command shell prompt. It is
       conventional instead to create and start the process by issuing the bos
       create command.

SEE ALSO

       BosConfig(5), bos_create(8), upserver(8)

COPYRIGHT

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