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portmap is a target utility.
The portmap daemon is a server that converts RPC program numbers into DARPA protocol port numbers. It must be running in order to make RPC calls.
When an RPC server is started, it will tell portmap what port number it is listening to, and what RPC program numbers it is prepared to serve. When a client wishes to make an RPC call to a given program number, it will first contact portmap on the server machine to determine the port number to which RPC packets should be sent.
The portmap daemon must be started before any RPC servers are invoked.
Normally, portmap forks and dissociates itself from the terminal like any other daemon. On top of ChorusOS an afexec is invoked instead of a fork, and all error messages are displayed to a local screen instead of being logged to a file.
The following option is available:
This debug option prevents portmap from running as a daemon, and causes errors and debugging information to be printed to the standard error output. In addition on top of ChorusOS each request is displayed.
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
---|---|
Interface Stability | Evolving |
If portmap crashes, all servers must be restarted.
The portmap command first appeared in BSD 4.3
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