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.TH "NWD" 8 .SH NAME nwd \- New Wheel Daemon


.SH "DESCRIPTION" .PP NWD monitors the CPU, memory, and network loads for a given machine, and keeps track of the number of open displays, as well as the number of displays it has committed to serve. .PP NWD performs logging in /var/log/nwd/ .SH "INTERACTING WITH NWD" Remote hosts can interact with NWD by sending UDP packets to port 49177, the list of packets NWD responds to are as follows:

\fBr <display>\fP .PP Make reservation for <display> where <display> is X displayname .PP \fBx <display>\fP .PP Cancel reservation for display .PP \fBs <display>\fP .PP Select reservation for display. Reservation wil persist for SELECT_TIME seconds. It is assumed that <display> will become actively managed within that interval .PP \fBq\fP .PP Queries acl and returns <active displays> <reserved displays> <enabled> .PP \fBb\fp .PP Makes acl block new connections .PP \fBu\fP .PP Makes acl accept new connections .PP \fBc\fP .PP Clear all reservations on acl .PP We recommend using the nwclient.pl utility for manual interactions with NWD

.SH "FILES"

.PP nwclient.pl, chooser.c, chooser_wrapper_xdm, setupchooser.sh

.SH "VERSION"

.PP Do we have a version number for this? Remove this?

.SH "SEE ALSO"

.PP \fBnwclient

.SH "AUTHOR"

Also don't know about this.