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