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.TH RPC 5  1985-09-26 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
rpc \- rpc program number data base
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B /etc/rpc
.SH DESCRIPTION
The
.I rpc
file contains user readable names that
can be used in place of RPC program numbers.
Each line has the following information:
.HP 10
name of server for the RPC program
.br
.ns
.HP 10
RPC program number
.br
.ns
.HP 10
aliases
.LP
Items are separated by any number of blanks and/or
tab characters.
A \(aq#\(aq indicates the beginning of a comment; characters from
the \(aq#\(aq to the end of the line are not interpreted by routines
which search the file.
.LP
Here is an example of the \fI/etc/rpc\fP file from the Sun RPC Source
distribution.
.nf
.ta 1.5i +0.5i +1.0i +1.0i
#
# rpc 88/08/01 4.0 RPCSRC; from 1.12   88/02/07 SMI
#
portmapper		100000	portmap sunrpc
rstatd		100001	rstat rstat_svc rup perfmeter
rusersd		100002	rusers
nfs		100003	nfsprog
ypserv		100004	ypprog
mountd		100005	mount showmount
ypbind		100007
walld		100008	rwall shutdown
yppasswdd		100009	yppasswd
etherstatd		100010	etherstat
rquotad		100011	rquotaprog quota rquota
sprayd		100012	spray
3270_mapper		100013
rje_mapper		100014
selection_svc		100015	selnsvc
database_svc		100016
rexd		100017	rex
alis		100018
sched		100019
llockmgr		100020
nlockmgr		100021
x25.inr		100022
statmon		100023
status		100024
bootparam		100026
ypupdated		100028	ypupdate
keyserv		100029	keyserver
tfsd		100037
nsed		100038
nsemntd		100039
.fi
.DT
.SH FILES
.TP
.I /etc/rpc
RPC program number data base
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR getrpcent (3)
.SH COLOPHON
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