MAXIM(8) BSD System Manager's Manual MAXIM(8)NAMEmaxim - system maintenance interface
SYNOPSISmaxim [-s | -S]
DESCRIPTION
The maxim program starts the system maintenance interface (known as Max-
IM). The user will be required to enter their username and password to
continue and the user must be in the ``maxim'' group to be accepted (the
root user is also allowed access). It is highly recommended that users
exit from the browser when they are finished (and therefore revoke their
browsers access tokens to the administration interfaces) so that someone
else cannot walk up and use their computer to make unauthorized changes
to the system.
Maxim will run either a text-mode browser (defaults to lynx(1), or you
can select another text-mode browser by setting the environment variable
MAXIM_TXTBROWSER) or, if the environment variable DISPLAY is set, it will
run a graphical browser (defaults to netscape, or you can select another
graphical browser by setting the environment variable MAXIM_XBROWSER.)
If maxim is starting the netscape browser it will attempt to load the
page into an existing netscape session using the netscape remote control
facility, if that fails, it will start it's own netscape session.
The user can override the default starting URL by setting the environment
variable MAXIM_URL. The user may also access the maintenance interface by
going to the URL <http://localhost:880> via any means at their disposal
(e.g., bookmarking the MaxIM URL).
-s Starts the administrative server if it isn't already running.
Must be run as root to do this.
-S Stops the currently running administrative server. Must be run
as root to do this.
The default behavior is to make sure the server is running and then to
point a web browser at the interface.
ENVIRONMENT
DISPLAY if set, runs MAXIM_XBROWSER
MAXIM_TXTBROWSER browser use for text-only systems, defaults to lynx
MAXIM_XBROWSER browser to use for X, defaults to netscape
MAXIM_NOREMOTE don't use the netscape -remote feature
MAXIM_URL the URL to load, defaults to the Maxim interface
SEE ALSOlynx(1), group(5)HISTORY
The maxim command first appeared in BSD/OS and is currently under devel-
opment.
BSDI BSD/OS September 27, 1996 1
