COMSAT(8) - System Manager’s Manual # COMSAT(8) - System Manager’s Manual
NAME # comsat - biff server
SYNOPSIS # comsat
DESCRIPTION # comsat is the server process which receives reports of incoming mail and notifies users if they have requested this service. comsat receives messages on a datagram port associated with the “biff” service specification (see services(5) and inetd(8)). The one line messages are of the form:
user@mailbox-offset If the user specified is logged in to the system and the associated terminal has the owner execute bit turned on (by a “biff y”), the offset is used as a seek offset into the appropriate mailbox file and the first 7 lines or 560 characters of the message are printed on the user’s terminal.
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FINGERD(8) - System Manager’s Manual # FINGERD(8) - System Manager’s Manual
NAME # fingerd - remote user information server
SYNOPSIS # fingerd [-lMmpSsu] [-PÂ filename]
DESCRIPTION # fingerd implements a simple protocol based on RFC 1288 that provides an interface to the Name and Finger programs at several network sites. The program is supposed to return a friendly, human-oriented status report on either the system at the moment or a particular person in depth.
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Who,
Syslogd,
Login.conf,
Login,
Chroot,
Proxy,
Sysctl,
Shells,
Inetd,
Pwd_mkdb,
Motd,
Services,
Ftp,
Ctime,
Group,
Skey,
Ftpd FTPD(8) - System Manager’s Manual # FTPD(8) - System Manager’s Manual
NAME # ftpd - Internet File Transfer Protocol server
SYNOPSIS # ftpd [-46ADdlMnPSUW] [-m minuid] [-T maxtimeout] [-t timeout] [-u mask]
DESCRIPTION # ftpd is the Internet File Transfer Protocol server process. The server uses the TCP protocol and listens at the port specified in the “ftp” service specification; see services(5).
The options are as follows:
-4
When -D is specified, forces ftpd to use IPv4 addresses only.
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INETD(8) - System Manager’s Manual # INETD(8) - System Manager’s Manual
NAME # inetd, inetd.conf - internet super-server
SYNOPSIS # inetd [-d] [-RÂ rate] [configuration_file]
DESCRIPTION # inetd should be run at boot time by /etc/rc (see rc(8)). It then listens for connections on certain internet sockets. When a connection is found on one of its sockets, it decides what service the socket corresponds to, and invokes a program to service the request.
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NTALKD(8) - System Manager’s Manual # NTALKD(8) - System Manager’s Manual
NAME # ntalkd - remote user communication server
SYNOPSIS # ntalkd
DESCRIPTION # ntalkd is the server that notifies a user that someone else wants to initiate a conversation. It acts as a repository of invitations, responding to requests by clients wishing to rendezvous to hold a conversation. In normal operation, a client, the caller, initiates a rendezvous by sending a CTL_MSG to the server of type LOOK_UP (see <protocols/talkd.
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PORTMAP(8) - System Manager’s Manual # PORTMAP(8) - System Manager’s Manual
NAME # portmap - Internet protocol port to RPC program number mapper
SYNOPSIS # portmap [-d]
DESCRIPTION # portmap is a server that converts RPC program numbers into Internet protocol port numbers. It must be running in order to make RPC calls.
When an RPC server is started, it will tell portmap what port number it is listening to, and what RPC program numbers it is prepared to serve.
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RDATE(8) - System Manager’s Manual # RDATE(8) - System Manager’s Manual
NAME # rdate - set the system’s date from a remote host
SYNOPSIS # rdate [-46acnopsv] host
DESCRIPTION # rdate displays and sets the local date and time from the host name or address given as the argument. The time source may be an RFC 5905 protocol SNTP/NTP server or an RFC 868 TCP protocol server, which is usually implemented as a built-in service of inetd(8).
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RPC.RSTATD(8) - System Manager’s Manual # RPC.RSTATD(8) - System Manager’s Manual
NAME # rpc.rstatd - kernel statistics server
SYNOPSIS # rpc.rstatd [closedown]
DESCRIPTION # rpc.rstatd is a server which returns performance statistics obtained from the kernel. Some of these statistics may be read using the rup(1) command. The rpc.rstatd daemon is normally invoked by inetd(8). At startup, rpc.rstatd performs a chroot(2) to /var/empty and switches to user _rstatd.
The options are as follows:
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RPC.RUSERSD(8) - System Manager’s Manual # RPC.RUSERSD(8) - System Manager’s Manual
NAME # rpc.rusersd - logged in users server
SYNOPSIS # rpc.rusersd
DESCRIPTION # rpc.rusersd is a server which returns information about users currently logged in to the system.
The currently logged in users are queried using the rusers(1) command. The rpc.rusersd daemon is normally invoked by inetd(8).
rpc.rusersd uses an RPC protocol defined in /usr/include/rpcsvc/rnusers.x.
SEE ALSO # rusers(1), w(1), who(1), inetd(8)
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RPC.RWALLD(8) - System Manager’s Manual # RPC.RWALLD(8) - System Manager’s Manual
NAME # rwalld, rpc.rwalld - write messages to users currently logged in server
SYNOPSIS # rpc.rwalld
DESCRIPTION # rpc.rwalld is a server which will send a message to users currently logged in to the system. This server invokes the wall(1) command to actually write the messages to the system.
Messages are sent to this server by the [rwall(1)](/man/man1/rwall.1) command.
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