Tornado

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Setup and Startup
No privilege is required to start the registry, and it is not harmful to attempt to start
a registry even if another is already running on the same host—the second daemon
detects that it is not needed, and shuts itself down.
To start the registry daemon from a command line, execute wtxregd in the
background. For example, on a Sun-4 running Solaris 2.x:
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% /usr/wind/host/sun4-solaris2/bin/wtxregd -V >/tmp/wtxregd.log &
This example uses the -V (verbose) option to collect diagnostic output in a logging
file in /tmp. We recommend this practice, so that status information from the
registry is available for troubleshooting.
To ensure that the registry remains available after a system restart, run wtxregd
from a system startup file. For example, on Sun hosts, a suitable file is /etc/rc2.
Insert lines like the following in the appropriate system startup file for your
registry host. The example below uses conditionals to avoid halting system startup
if wtxregd is not available due to some unusual circumstance such as a disk failure.
#
# Start up Tornado registry daemon
#
if [ -f /usr/wind/host/host-os/bin/wtxregd ]; then
WIND_HOST_TYPE=host-os
export WIND_HOST_TYPE
WIND_BASE=/usr/wind
export WIND_BASE
/usr/wind/host/host-os/bin/wtxregd -V -d /var/tmp >/tmp/wtxregd.log &
echo -n 'Tornado Registry started'
fi
The Tornado tools locate the registry daemon through the environment variable
WIND_REGISTRY; each Tornado user must set this variable to the name of
whatever host on the network runs wtxregd.
In some cases, you may wish to segregate some collections of targets; to do this, run
a separate registry daemon for each separate set of targets. Developers can then
use the WIND_REGISTRY environment variable to select a registry host.
One of the more exotic applications of Tornado is to set this environment variable
to a remote site; this allows the Tornado environment to execute remotely. Using a
remote registry can bridge two separate buildings, or even enable concurrent
development on both sides of the globe! As a support mechanism, it allows
customer support engineers to wire themselves into a remote environment. This
application often requires setting WIND_REGISTRY to a numeric Internet address,
since the registry host may not be mapped by domain name. For example (using
the C shell):
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