HP-UX Reference (11i v3 07/02) - 1M System Administration Commands N-Z (vol 4)

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 program

sending packets faster than they can be buffered locally, that is, before the packets get to the network

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.