HP-UX Reference (11i v2 07/12) - 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, pro-

cess 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.