rpcinfo

NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

makes an call to an server and reports what it finds.

OPTIONS

  • p Probe the portmapper on and print a list of all registered programs. If is not specified, it defaults to the value returned by hostname(1)
  • u Make an call to procedure 0 of on the specified using and report whether a response was received.
  • t Make an call to procedure 0 of on the specified using and report whether a response was received.
  • n Use as the port number for the and options instead of the port number given by the portmapper.
  • b Make an broadcast to procedure 0 of the specified and using and report all hosts that respond.
  • d Delete registration for the service of the specified and This option can be exercised only by the super-user.
The argument can be either a name or a number.
If a is specified, attempts to call that version of the specified Otherwise, attempts to find all the registered version numbers for the specified by calling version 0 (which is presumed not to exist; if it does exist, attempts to obtain this information by calling an extremely high version number instead) and attempts to call each registered version. Note: the version number is required for and options.

EXAMPLES

To show all of the services registered on the local machine use:
To show all of the services registered on the machine named use:
To show all machines on the local net that are running the Yellow Pages service use:
where 'version' is the current Yellow Pages version obtained from the results of the switch above.
To delete the registration for version 1 of the service use:

SEE ALSO

rpc(5) portmap(8) .%T "RPC Programming Guide"

BUGS

In releases prior to SunOS 3.0, the Network File System (NFS) did not register itself with the portmapper; cannot be used to make calls to the server on hosts running such releases.