HP-UX Reference (11i v2 03/08) - 1M System Administration Commands N-Z (vol 4)

rusersd(1M) rusersd(1M)

NAME

rusersd - network username server

SYNOPSIS

/usr/lib/netsvc/rusers/rpc.rusersd

[-l log_ﬁle][-e

-n]

DESCRIPTION

rusersd is an RPC server that returns a list of users on the network. The

rusers command prints

this information (see rusers(1)).

inetd invokes rusersd through /etc/inetd.conf

(see inetd(1M)).

Options

rusersd 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, the 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 portmap (1M)),

• another

rpc.rusersd registers with portmap,or

•

rpc.rusersd becomes unregistered with portmap.

The

-n option is more efﬁcient because a new process is not launched for each RPC

request. This option is the default.

AUTHOR

rusersd was developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc.