man5/rpc.5

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   7 .\" @(#)rpc.5   2.2 88/08/03 4.0 RPCSRC; from 1.4 87/11/27 SMI;
   8 .TH RPC 5 2021-03-22 "Linux man-pages (unreleased)" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
   9 .SH NAME
  10 rpc \- RPC program number data base
  11 .SH SYNOPSIS
  12 .nf
  13 .B /etc/rpc
  14 .fi
  15 .SH DESCRIPTION
  16 The
  17 .I rpc
  18 file contains user readable names that
  19 can be used in place of RPC program numbers.
  20 Each line has the following information:
  21 .PP
  22 .PD 0
  23 .IP \(bu 3
  24 name of server for the RPC program
  25 .IP \(bu
  26 RPC program number
  27 .IP \(bu
  28 aliases
  29 .PD
  30 .PP
  31 Items are separated by any number of blanks and/or
  32 tab characters.
  33 A \(aq#\(aq indicates the beginning of a comment; characters from
  34 the \(aq#\(aq to the end of the line are not interpreted by routines
  35 which search the file.
  36 .PP
  37 Here is an example of the
  38 .I /etc/rpc
  39 file from the Sun RPC Source distribution.
  40 .PP
  41 .in +4n
  42 .EX
  43 #
  44 # rpc 88/08/01 4.0 RPCSRC; from 1.12   88/02/07 SMI
  45 #
  46 portmapper      100000  portmap sunrpc
  47 rstatd          100001  rstat rstat_svc rup perfmeter
  48 rusersd         100002  rusers
  49 nfs             100003  nfsprog
  50 ypserv          100004  ypprog
  51 mountd          100005  mount showmount
  52 ypbind          100007
  53 walld           100008  rwall shutdown
  54 yppasswdd       100009  yppasswd
  55 etherstatd      100010  etherstat
  56 rquotad         100011  rquotaprog quota rquota
  57 sprayd          100012  spray
  58 3270_mapper     100013
  59 rje_mapper      100014
  60 selection_svc   100015  selnsvc
  61 database_svc    100016
  62 rexd            100017  rex
  63 alis            100018
  64 sched           100019
  65 llockmgr        100020
  66 nlockmgr        100021
  67 x25.inr         100022
  68 statmon         100023
  69 status          100024
  70 bootparam       100026
  71 ypupdated       100028  ypupdate
  72 keyserv         100029  keyserver
  73 tfsd            100037
  74 nsed            100038
  75 nsemntd         100039
  76 .EE
  77 .in
  78 .SH FILES
  79 .TP
  80 .I /etc/rpc
  81 RPC program number data base
  82 .SH SEE ALSO
  83 .BR getrpcent (3)