PROOFSERV(1)						      General Commands Manual						      PROOFSERV(1)

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 <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 pub-
       lished 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  MER-
       CHANTABILITY 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 Foun-
       dation, 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).

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