1.\" $NetBSD: rpc.5,v 1.3 2000/06/15 20:05:54 fvdl Exp $ 2.\" $FreeBSD$ 3.\" @(#)rpc.4 1.17 93/08/30 SMI; from SVr4 4.\" Copyright 1989 AT&T 5.Dd December 10, 1991 6.Dt RPC 5 7.Os 8.Sh NAME 9.Nm rpc 10.Nd rpc program number data base 11.Sh SYNOPSIS 12.Pa /etc/rpc 13.Sh DESCRIPTION 14The 15.Nm 16file contains user readable names that 17can be used in place of RPC program numbers. 18For each RPC program a single line should be present 19with the following information: 20.Pp 21.Bl -enum -compact 22.It 23name of the RPC program 24.It 25RPC program number 26.It 27aliases 28.El 29.Pp 30Items are separated by any number of blanks and/or 31tab characters. 32A hash 33.Pq Dq Li # 34indicates the beginning of a comment; characters up to the end of 35the line are not interpreted by routines which search the file. 36.Sh EXAMPLES 37Below is an example of an RPC database: 38.Bd -literal 39# 40# rpc 41# 42rpcbind 100000 portmap sunrpc portmapper 43rusersd 100002 rusers 44nfs 100003 nfsprog 45mountd 100005 mount showmount 46walld 100008 rwall shutdown 47sprayd 100012 spray 48llockmgr 100020 49nlockmgr 100021 50status 100024 51bootparam 100026 52keyserv 100029 keyserver 53.Ed 54.Sh FILES 55.Bl -tag -width /etc/nsswitch.conf -compact 56.It Pa /etc/nsswitch.conf 57.El 58.Sh SEE ALSO 59.Xr getrpcent 3 60