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Apple Qmaster 2 User Manual

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Enter the following command:

sudo installer -pkg AppleQmasterNode.mpkg -target /

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Do one of the following to start the Apple Qmaster processes:

 Enter this command:

sudo systemstarter start Qmaster\ services

 Restart the remote computer.

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Repeat these steps for each computer in your distributed processing network.

Shell Commands for Configuring Service Nodes
and Cluster Controllers

As an alternative to using the Apple Qmaster pane in System Preferences, you can use
the command qmasterprefs, with command-line options for enabling and disabling
service node and cluster controlling services.

In the command-line descriptions below, angle brackets < > indicate a mandatory
argument in a command and brackets [ ] indicate an optional argument.

Synopsis
Below is a synopsis of the command for enabling and disabling cluster controlling
services on a computer. The qmasterprefs command is located in /usr/sbin.

qmasterprefs -cluster [-timeout ] [-servername ] [-list] [-help]

Below is a synopsis of the command for enabling and disabling service node
processing on a computer.

qmasterprefs -service “Unix Processing” [-instances ] [-timeout ]
[-servername ] [-list] [-help]

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