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sprayd(1M) sprayd(1M)
NAME
rpc.sprayd, sprayd - spray server
SYNOPSIS
/usr/lib/netsvc/spray/rpc.sprayd
[-l log_file ][-e-n
]
DESCRIPTION
sprayd is an RPC server that records the packets sent by
spray from another system (see spray (1M)).
sprayd daemon may be started by inetd or through the command line. The service provided by
sprayd is not useful as a networking benchmark as it uses unreliable connectionless transports, UDP,
for example. It can report a large number of packets dropped when the drops were caused by the pro-
gram sending packets faster than they can be buffered locally, that is, before the packets get to the net-
work medium.
Options
sprayd recognizes the following options and command-line arguments:
-l log_file Log any errors to the named log file, log_file. Errors are not logged if the
-l option is
not specified.
Information logged to the file includes date and time of the error, host name, process
id and name of the function generating the error, and the error message. Note that
different services can share a single log file since enough information is included to
uniquely identify each error.
-e Exit after serving each RPC request. Using the -e option, the inetd security file
/var/adm/inetd.sec
can control access to RPC services.
-n Exit only if
•
portmap dies (see rpcbind (1M)),
• Another sprayd registers with portmap,or
• sprayd becomes unregistered with portmap.
The
-n option is more efficient because a new process is not launched for each RPC request.
-n is the
default.
AUTHOR
sprayd was developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
SEE ALSO
inetd(1M), rpcbind(1M), spray(1M), inetd.conf(4), inetd.sec(4), services(4).
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