NAME

       proofserv - PROOF (The Parallel ROOT Facility)

DESCRIPTION

       Using PROOF (The Parallel ROOT Facility) one can analyze trees in parallel on a cluster of computers. The
       PROOF system consists of the proofd(1) from-end program which is started via inetd(8).

       proofd takes care of user authentication and overlays  itself  then  with  the  desired  version  of  the
       proofserv(1) executable.

       The proofserv(1) is a basically the same as the ROOT interactive module root(1), except that it reads its
       commands from a socket instead of from the terminal.

       Since it is a remote server it will not do graphics  and  therefore  is  not  linked  with  any  graphics
       libraries (Motif, X11, etc.).

       proofserv  is started by the daemon proofd(1) on request by the user.  It is not a command to be executed
       by the user directly.

       Note, that if proofserv is passed any arguments, it will use the libProofx  interface,  rather  than  the
       standard libProof interface.

SEE ALSO

       proofd(1) , root(1) , rootd(1)

       More information can be found at the ROOT website: http://root.cern.ch ⟨http://root.cern.ch⟩

ORIGINAL AUTHORS

       The ROOT team (see web page above):
              Rene Brun and Fons Rademakers

COPYRIGHT

       This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser
       General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of  the  License,
       or (at your option) any later version.

       This  library  is  distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even
       the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU Lesser  General
       Public License for more details.

       You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this library; if not,
       write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Christian Holm  Christensen  <cholm@nbi.dk>,  for  the  Debian  GNU/Linux
       system (but may be used by others).