		S A T O O L S - F A Q
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(agreed, it's a bit short yet).

1.	INTRODUCTON

	This document lists a number of frequently asked questions
	about satools. Its divided into different sections, first one general
	section, then one section per function (or command).

2.	GENERAL QUESTIONS

2.1	Q: Is it free?
	A: Its GPL:ed with some the additions, see the files COPYING and
	   COPYING.EXTRA.

3.	QUESTIONS ABOUT MACHINES (AND SADBCMD)

3.1	Q: Can i import data from other databases.
	A: Yes, create a file with the format:

		column key value

	   and feed it to mkmachines -i file.

4.	QUESTIONS ABOUT SADIST

4.1	Q: Can i specify several host lists to the hosts-command in the
	   Control file or the sadist.cfg file.
	A: Yes, normally the hosts-macro looks something like this:
		hosts {machines -domain mydomain -exist true}
	   but by using the tcl-command concat, several selections may
	   be used, like:
	   	hosts {concat [machines -domain dom1] [machines -domain dom2]}

4.2	Q: Do a have to have a machines database and use sahostinfo.
	A: No, you can specify the line:
		database none
	   in the controlfile. The only variables you can use in the
	   datafiles then is the $host variable, all the others (like
	   $subnet, $ip, $osvers ...) are the of course unknown.

