NAME

rpc — rpc program number data base

SYNOPSIS

/etc/rpc

DESCRIPTION

The rpc file is a local source containing user readable names that can be used in place of RPC program numbers.

The rpc file has one line for each RPC program name. The line has the following format:

name-of-the-RPC-program RPC-program-number aliases

Items are separated by any number of blanks and/or tab characters. A hash (“#”) indicates the beginning of a comment; characters up to the end of the line are not interpreted by routines which search the file.

FILES

/etc/rpc

EXAMPLES

Below is an example of an RPC data base:

# 
#	rpc 
# 
rpcbind		100000	portmap	sunrpc portmapper 
rusersd		100002	rusers 
nfs		100003	nfsprog 
mountd		100005	mount	showmount 
walld		100008	rwall	shutdown 
sprayd		100012	spray 
llockmgr	100020 
nlockmgr	100021 
status		100024 
bootparam	100026 
keyserv		100029	keyserver

SEE ALSO

getrpcent(3)