HOST_ALIASES(5)            Grid Engine File Formats            HOST_ALIASES(5)



[1mNAME[0m
       host_aliases - Grid Engine host aliases file format

[1mDESCRIPTION[0m
       All Grid Engine components use a hostname resolving service provided by
       the communication library to identify hosts via a unique hostname.  The
       communication  library  itself  references standard UNIX directory ser-
       vices such as DNS, NIS and /etc/hosts to resolve  hostnames.   In  rare
       cases  these  standard services cannot be setup cleanly and Grid Engine
       communication daemons running on different hosts are unable to automat-
       ically  determine  a  unique hostname for one or all hosts which can be
       used on all hosts. In such situations a Grid Engine host  aliases  file
       can  be  used  to  provide the communication daemons with a private and
       consistent hostname resolution database.

       The location  for  the  host  aliases  file  is  [4m<sge_root>/<cell>/com-[0m
       [4mmon/host_aliases.[0m

[1mFORMAT[0m
       For  each  host  a  single line must be provided with a blank, comma or
       semicolon separated list  of  hostname  aliases.  The  first  alias  is
       defined to be the [1munique [22mhostname which will be used by all Grid Engine
       components using the hostname aliasing  service  of  the  communication
       library.

[1mSEE ALSO[0m
       [4msge_intro[24m(1),

[1mCOPYRIGHT[0m
       See [4msge_intro[24m(1) for a full statement of rights and permissions.



GE 6.0                   $Date: 2005/03/30 14:31:37 $          HOST_ALIASES(5)
