Manage Remote Taskers Without SSH/RSH Capabilities

The program vovtsd is a daemon written as a Tcl script that runs using the VOV vtclsh binary. This daemon can be used also to start various types of agents on any type of Windows or UNIX machine.

In Windows, vovtsd is started from the command line and then runs in a Windows cmd shell. Each vovserver connects to vovtsd via TCP/IP to start the vovtasker process.

vovtsd

This utility listens for requests to launch taskers for various projects, but always for the same user. The requests typically come from vovtaskermgr.

Usage


vovtsd: Usage Message
  
  VOVTSD: Vov Tasker Service Daemon
      This utility listens for requests to launch taskers for
      various projects, but always for the same user.
      The requests typically come from vovtaskermgr.
  
  USAGE:
      % vovtsd [OPTIONS]
  
  OPTIONS:
      -v                     -- Increase verbosity.
      -h                     -- Print this help.
      -debug                 -- Generate verbose output.
      -help                  -- This message.
      -normal                -- Start a normal daemon (for current user)
      -expire <TIMESPEC>     -- Exit from vovtsd after specified time.
      -user  <user>          -- Specify the user that should be impersonated.
                                vovtsd computes the port number by
                                hashing the user name.
      -port  <n>             -- Specify port to listen to.
  
  EXAMPLES:
      % vovtsd -normal
      % vovtsd -port 16666
      % vovtsd -user john -port 16000