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Administering Your 

Palace Site

This section describes how to administer your Palace site. On the UNIX Palace, most of 

your Palace administration is done through owner and operator commands executed 

on your Palace client. You also can modify the settings of your Palace server 's 

preferences files.

Maintaining Palace files and network settings on page 25

Setting preferences on page 27

Setting user access and privileges on page 27

Changing the look of your Palace site on page 28

Owner and operator commands on page 30

Maintaining information for web based users on page 31

Maintaining your site page in the Palace Directory on page 33

Maintaining Palace files and network settings

As the owner of your Palace, you need to periodically maintain the actual Palace files 

on your machine. One file in particular that will grow noticeably in size over time is 

the file that contains your props (the 

pserver.prp

 file). This file stores the binary 

data associated with all props used in your Palace site by all members. This file can 

become quite large if your site becomes popular; it's not uncommon to hear of 10  or 

15 MB propfiles. There are two ways to control the size of this file:

Us  e the

  purgeprops

 or 

 flushprops

 command. 

  purgeprops

 is an operator 

command and 

 flushprops

 is an owner command that has been built into the 

system for prop maintenance. For more information see the Palace Wizard s Guide 

online at the Palace website. 

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