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2 <!ENTITY applname
"ace_netsvcs">
3 <!ENTITY seealso
"/usr/share/ace-netsvcs/svc.conf, /usr/share/doc/ace-netsvcs/ACE-netsvcs.html">
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11 <refentrytitle>ACE_NETSVCS
</refentrytitle>
12 <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
15 <refname>&applname;</refname>
16 <refpurpose>ACE network services driver.
</refpurpose>
19 <title>SYNOPSIS
</title>
21 <command>&applname;</command>
22 <arg rep=
"repeat"><replaceable>OPTION
</replaceable></arg>
26 <title>DESCRIPTION
</title>
28 &applname; is a driver to start ACE network services. Currently,
29 libnetsvcs provides: Naming Service, Time Service, Token Service,
30 Server Logging Service, Client Logging Service, Logging Strategy Service.
34 <title>OPTIONS
</title>
37 <term><parameter>-f
</parameter> <replaceable>svc.conf
</replaceable> </term>
40 Specifies a
<replaceable>svc.conf
</replaceable> configuration file name other
41 than the default one. Can be specified multiple times to use multiple files.
46 <term><parameter>-d
</parameter></term>
49 Turn on debugging mode.
54 <term><parameter>-n
</parameter></term>
57 Explicitly disables the use of static services. This flag overrides the @a ignore_static_svcs parameter value.
62 <term><parameter>-p
</parameter> <replaceable>pathname
</replaceable></term>
65 Specifies a
<replaceable>pathname
</replaceable> which is used to store the process id.
70 <term><parameter>-s
</parameter> <replaceable>signal
</replaceable></term>
73 Specifies a
<replaceable>signal
</replaceable> number other than SIGHUP to trigger
74 reprocessing of the configuration file(s). Ignored for platforms that do not have
75 POSIX signals, such as Windows.
80 <term><parameter>-y
</parameter></term>
83 Explicitly enables the use of static services. This flag
84 overrides the @a ignore_static_svcs parameter value.
89 <term><parameter>-S
</parameter> <replaceable>directive
</replaceable></term>
92 Specifies a service
<replaceable>directive
</replaceable> string.
93 Enclose the string in quotes
94 and escape any embedded quotes with a backslash. This option
95 specifies service directives without the need for a configuration
101 <term><parameter>-b
</parameter></term>
104 Option to indicate that we should be a daemon. Note that when
105 this option is used, the process will be daemonized before the
106 service configuration file(s) are read. During daemonization,
107 (on POSIX systems) the current directory will be changed to
"/"
108 so the caller should either fully specify the file names, or
109 execute a @c chroot() to the appropriate directory.
110 @sa ACE::daemonize().
115 <term><parameter>-k
</parameter> <replaceable>point
</replaceable></term>
118 Specifies the rendezvous
<replaceable>point
</replaceable> to use for the ACE distributed
126 <title>EXAMPLES
</title>
129 <term><code>&applname; -f /usr/share/ace-netsvcs/svc.conf
</code></term>
132 Starts ACE network services using example configuration.
137 <term><code>&applname; -S
'dynamic Name_Server Service_Object * netsvcs:_make_ACE_Name_Acceptor()
""-p
20006""' </code></term>
140 Starts ACE Naming service using command line configuration.
149 <title>SEE ALSO
</title>
150 <para>&seealso;</para>
153 <title>AUTHOR
</title>
154 <para>Douglas C. Schmidt
<email><schmidt@cs.wustl.edu
></email> </para>