From: kibo@world.std.com (James "Kibo" Parry)
Subject: SPOT, SMIT, & BOS
Reply-To: kibo@world.std.com
Organization: Two rooms filled with typography, in downtown Boston
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 23:22:46 GMT

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	Spot and Smit seem to have been bosing with the AIX kernel.
Poor Spot!  He's going to be rmspotted--with Stain Stick!

	I guess he needed to read that book on Dickless Workstation
Management first...


  rmspot Command
  
  
  Purpose
  
  Delete a specified Shared Product Object Tree (SPOT).
  
   Syntax
  
  rmspot [  -r ] [   -v] { SPOTName [ ,SPOTName ] ... }
  
  Description
  
  Notes:
  
  1.	To run this command, a SPOT must have been previously made.
  
  2.	This command must be run by a user with root authority.
  
  3.	All clients and servers referenced by the rmspot command must
  be known to the network.
  
  The rmspot command removes the specified SPOT by performing the
  following tasks:
  
  1.	Verifies the SPOT as a valid AIX SPOT.  A SPOT is valid only
  if it has an entry in the  dwmdb file.
  
  2.	Mounts the directory containing the SPOT if it is on a machine
  other than the one running the rmspot command.  The machine run-
  ning the rmspot command must have read and write mount access to
  the remote SPOT directory.
  
  3.	Deletes all the files in the SPOT directory and removes the
  SPOT directory.
  
  4.	Removes the export information about the SPOT from the AIX
  /etc/exports file if the SPOT is on the same machine running the
  rmspot command.
  
  Note:	The rmspot command cannot remove export information about
  the SPOT from the AIX /etc/exports file if the SPOT is on another
  machine because  it is a possible breach of mount security.  This
  information can only be removed if the rmspot command is run on
  that machine.
  
  5.	Removes the boot image associated with this SPOT.  If the boot
  directory containing this file  is not on the machine running the
  rmspot command, the rmspot command mounts it.  The machine run-
  ning the rmspot command must have read and write access to the
  boot directory.
  
  6.	Removes all information about the SPOT from the  dwmdb file.
  
  If the SPOT to be removed is a server's /usr file system, the
  SPOT's entry in the dwmdb file is deleted without deleting the
  actual file system.  With the -r flag, steps 2 and 3 above are
  not performed.
  
  The rmspot command can be run from the command line or using the
  SMIT (System Management Interface Tool) fast path by entering:
  
  smit rmspot
  
  Flags
  
  -r	Removes the specified SPOT name from the dwmdb file without
  removing any files within the SPOT.
  
  -v	Causes verbose output to be written to standard error.
  
  SPOTName	Specifies a SPOT to be removed.  If more than one
  SPOTName variable is specified, each SPOT listed is removed.
  
  Examples
  
  1.	To remove the SPOT with the name SPOT1, enter:
  
  rmspot -v SPOT1
  
  This produces the following output:
  
  processing for the "SPOT1" SPOT
  removing the "dlong.austin.ibm.com:/export/exec/SPOT1" directory
  un-exporting "/export/exec/SPOT1/usr"
  removing "SPOT1" from the DWM database
  removing the SPOT boot image from "dlong.austin.ibm.com:/tftpboot"
  
  2.	To remove the SPOT that is named SPOT2 and that is the /usr
  directory of the server dlong, enter:
  
  rmspot -vr SPOT2
  
  This produces the following output:
  
  processing for the "SPOT2" SPOT
  un-exporting "/usr"
  removing "SPOT2" from the DWM database
  removing the SPOT boot image from "dlong.austin.ibm.com:/tftpboot"
  
  Implementation specifics
  
  This command is part of the AIX Base Operating System (BOS) Run-
  time.
  
  Files
  
  Note:	The following paths are defaults; the actual files may be
  elsewhere.
  
  /etc/bootptab	Contains client boot information.
  
  /etc/exports	Contains information about which file systems a
  server has available for remote mounting.
  
   /etc/aixdwm/dwmdb	Database file for the Diskless Workstation
  Management commands.
  
  Suggested Reading
  
  
  
  Prerequisite Information
  
   Diskless Overview and  Introduction to Diskless Workstation
  Management.
  
  Related Information
  
  The  chdclient command,  lsdclient command,  lsspot command, 
  mkdclient command,  mkspot command,  rmdclient command,  xlpp
  command.

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