1 .TH MOIRA 1 "29 Nov 1988" "Project Athena"
4 moira, listmaint, usermaint, dcmmaint \- maintain information stored in moira
15 administers all of the information stored in Moira, the Athena Service
16 Management System database. When invoked by the name
17 .B listmaint, usermaint,
21 will immediately drop into the appropriate sub-menu.
23 It a database is specified on the command line, that server will be
24 contacted rather than the compiled-in default. The host and port may
25 both be symbolic names or numbers. If the port is not specified, the
26 default Moira server port will be used. The server chosen will be the
27 one specified on the command line, from the environment variable
28 MOIRASERVER, from the "moira" sloc entry in hesiod, or the compiled in
29 default, in that order of preference.
34 will cause moira to not take over the screen. With this option
36 will be handled like a printing terminal. Each menu will be displayed
37 only once. Typing '?' will cause a menu to be redisplayed.
39 When called without options,
41 displays a menu in the top half of the screen listing other menus;
42 retrievals, appends, updates, or
43 deletes to the database; or control actions within the program.
44 Each menu consists of several lines containing a single character
45 (usually a numeral), a keyword, and a short description. Menu items
46 may be selected by either the single character or the keyword. Needed
47 arguments may be put on the same line -- otherwise, they will be
48 prompted for. It is possible to invoke an option from a sub-menu by
49 name while at a higher menu. The lower half of the screen is a
50 dialogue area used to prompt the user and display retrieved information.
52 The top level menu just lists other menus for each of the types of
53 objects stored in the database. Most menus also list the following
57 Toggle the verbosity of delete. This controls whether or not an extra
58 confirmation will be required before deleting data from the database.
61 Return to the menu above this one in the menu tree.
64 Toggle logging on and off. When logging is turned on, all output in
65 the lower half of the screen will also be written to
66 .I /usr/tmp/sms-log.XXXX,
67 where XXXX is the process-ID of the moira client.
70 Exits the moira client immediately. The connection to the Moira server
73 Pay attention to Kerberos diagnostics, as one must be authenticated to
74 do most Moira database work.
76 As this is a database manipulation application, diagnostics indicate an
77 incomplete argument list, an attempt to modify/delete an ambiguous
78 entry, or an invalid menu choice.
82 path name of your Kerberos ticket. Moira decides who you are and what you
83 can do based on your Kerberos tickets, and nothing else.
86 used by curses to control of scrolling and menu display.
88 Jean Marie Diaz, Mark Roman, Chris Peterson, Mark Rosenstein and a
91 chfn(1), chpobox(1), chsh(1), mailmaint(1), blanche(1),
92 Moira section of the Project Athena Technical Plan
94 Moira was previously called SMS, and some places still refer to it by