1 .\" $NetBSD: rpc.5,v 1.8 2005/03/30 13:07:34 jmmv Exp $
2 .\" @(#)rpc.4 1.17 93/08/30 SMI; from SVr4
3 .\" Copyright 1989 AT&T
9 .Nd rpc program number data base
15 file is a local source containing user readable names that
16 can be used in place of RPC program numbers.
18 The rpc file has one line for each RPC
19 program name. The line has the following format:
21 .Dl name-of-the-RPC-program RPC-program-number aliases
23 Items are separated by any number of blanks and/or
27 indicates the beginning of a comment;
28 characters up to the end of the line are not interpreted
29 by routines which search the file.
31 .Nm /etc/nsswitch.conf
33 Below is an example of an RPC database:
39 rpcbind 100000 portmap sunrpc portmapper
42 mountd 100005 mount showmount
43 walld 100008 rwall shutdown
49 keyserv 100029 keyserver