The Cr Control File - Novell SLRS 8 Admin Manual

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RELOAD_CONFIG
If set to an non-empty string, forces all config files to be loaded from
the server. Used mainly for debugging purposes, this option only makes
sense on diskful systems. Using posldap2crconfig.pl will overwrite
this optional feature of the CR configuration file.

15.6.2 The CR Control File

This section describes the cash register control file:
hwtype. MAC Address
The control file is primarily used to set up new cash registers. In this case,
there is no configuration file corresponding to the cash registers MAC address
available. During the boot process of the cash register, the hardware type
and the BIOS version is detected (the POS hardware manufacturer provides a
program for this function). Using this information, the control file is created,
which is uploaded to the TFTP servers upload directory /tftpboot/upload.
Note: The control file (hwtype. MAC Address ) is only uploaded to the
TFTP server when no configuration file (config. MAC Address ) exists. After
the configuration file is created, the control file is deleted from the directory
/tftpboot/upload.
Registration: The information stored in the LDAP of the administration server
is compared with the HWTYPE (e.g., IBMSurePOS300Series) of the control file
to create a new configuration file for this cash register in the TFTP server
directory /tftpboot/CR. If the HWTYPE is unknown, a default minimal config-
uration is chosen. In this case, the control file will not be deleted from the
TFTP server upload directory to indicate problems with the LDAP configura-
tion of known cash register types. The contents of the control file correspond
to the cash register hardware type, the BIOS version, and the cash register
alias name. If no alias name was set, the default name undefined is used.
The following format is used:
HWTYPE=hardware type
HWBIOS=bios version
CRNAME=alias name
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