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Preface

1.  Introduction to ONC+ Technologies

2.  Introduction to TI-RPC

3.  rpcgen Programming Guide

4.  Programmer's Interface to RPC

5.  Advanced RPC Programming Techniques

6.  Porting From TS-RPC to TI-RPC

7.  Multithreaded RPC Programming

8.  Extensions to the Sun RPC Library

9.  NIS+ Programming Guide

A.  XDR Technical Note

B.  RPC Protocol and Language Specification

C.  XDR Protocol Specification

D.  RPC Code Examples

E.  portmap Utility

F.  Writing a Port Monitor With the Service Access Facility (SAF)

What Is the SAF?

What Is the SAC?

Basic Port Monitor Functions

Port Management

Activity Monitoring

Other Port Monitor Functions

Restricting Access to the System

Creating utmpx Entries

Port Monitor Process IDs and Lock Files

Changing the Service Environment: Running doconfig()

Terminating a Port Monitor

SAF Files

Port Monitor Administrative File

Per-Service Configuration Files

Private Port Monitor Files

SAC/Port Monitor Interface

Message Formats

SAC Messages

Port Monitor Messages

Message Classes

Port Monitor Administrative Interface

SAC Administrative File _sactab

Port Monitor Administrative File _pmtab

SAC Administrative Command sacadm

Port Monitor Administrative Command pmadm

Monitor-Specific Administrative Command

Port Monitor/Service Interface

New Service Invocations

Standing Service Invocations

Port Monitor Requirements

Initial Environment

Important Files

Port Monitor Responsibilities

Configuration Files and Scripts

Interpreting Configuration Scripts With doconfig()

Per-System Configuration File

Per-Port Monitor Configuration Files

Per-Service Configuration Files

Configuration Language

assign Keyword

push Keyword

pop Keyword

runwait Keyword

run Keyword

Printing, Installing, and Replacing Configuration Scripts

Per-System Configuration Scripts

Per-Port Monitor Configuration Scripts

Per-Service Configuration Scripts

Sample Port Monitor Code

Logic Diagram and Directory Structure

Glossary

Index

SAF Files

This section briefly covers the files used by the SAF.

Port Monitor Administrative File

A port monitor's current directory contains an administrative file named _pmtab. _pmtab is maintained by the pmadm command in conjunction with a port monitor-specific administrative command.

The port monitor administrative command for a listen port monitor is nlsadmin(); the port monitor administrative command for ttymon is ttyadm(). Any port monitor written by a user must be provided with an administrative command specific to that port monitor to perform similar functions.

Per-Service Configuration Files

A port monitor's current directory also contains the per-service configuration scripts, if they exist. The names of the per-service configuration scripts correspond to the service tags in the _pmtab file.

Private Port Monitor Files

A port monitor can create private files in the directory /var/saf/tag, where tag is the name of the port monitor. Examples of private files are log files or temporary files.