Man page or keyword search:   man All Sections 1 - General Commands 2 - System Calls 3 - Subroutines, Functions 4 - Special Files 5 - File Formats 6 - Games and Screensavers 7 - Macros and Conventions 8 - Maintenence Commands 9 - Kernel Interface New Commands Server 4.4BSD AIX Alpinelinux Archlinux Aros BSDOS BSDi Bifrost CentOS Cygwin Darwin Debian DigitalUNIX DragonFly ElementaryOS Fedora FreeBSD Gentoo GhostBSD HP-UX Haiku Hurd IRIX Inferno JazzOS Kali Knoppix LinuxMint MacOSX Mageia Mandriva Manjaro Minix MirBSD NeXTSTEP NetBSD OPENSTEP OSF1 OpenBSD OpenDarwin OpenIndiana OpenMandriva OpenServer OpenSuSE OpenVMS Oracle PC-BSD Peanut Pidora Plan9 QNX Raspbian RedHat Scientific Slackware SmartOS Solaris SuSE SunOS Syllable Tru64 UNIXv7 Ubuntu Ultrix UnixWare Xenix YellowDog aLinux   1419 pages apropos Keyword Search (all sections) Output format html ascii pdf view pdf save postscript

PORTMAP(8C)							   PORTMAP(8C)

NAME
       portmap - DARPA port to RPC program number mapper

SYNOPSIS
       /usr/etc/portmap

DESCRIPTION
       portmap	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 where RPC packets should be sent.

       Normally, standard RPC servers are started  by  inetd(8C),  so  portmap
       must be started before inetd is invoked.

SEE ALSO
       inetd.conf(5), rpcinfo(8), inetd(8)

BUGS
       If portmap crashes, all servers must be restarted.

			       9 September 1987			   PORTMAP(8C)

                             _         _         _ 
                            | |       | |       | |     
                            | |       | |       | |     
                         __ | | __ __ | | __ __ | | __  
                         \ \| |/ / \ \| |/ / \ \| |/ /  
                          \ \ / /   \ \ / /   \ \ / /   
                           \   /     \   /     \   /    
                            \_/       \_/       \_/ 

Vote for polarhome