NAME

nbpd − AppleTalk Name Binding Protocol demon

SYNOPSIS

/usr/appletalk/nbpd

DESCRIPTION

Nbpd is a host demon that manages AppleTalk Name binding Protocol (NBP) requests.  It listens on the Names Information Socket for Name Binding Protocol requests.  It maintains a table of named services registered by host processes and reports these services when requested by AppleTalk clients. 

Nbpd creates two files upon its invocation.  /usr/spool/appletalk/names_table is the registered services table maintained by the demon.  /usr/spool/appletalk/nbp_pid contains the process i.d. of the demon.  These two files are removed whenever the demon is killed with a SIGTERM signal (which is sent at system shutdown time).  If nbpd is halted in any other way, these two files must be removed before the demon is restarted.  Nbpd should be started in the system startup file /etc/rc.local at which time the names_table and nbp_pid are typically removed.  Nbpd is installed in the directory "/usr/appletalk". 

FILES

/usr/spool/appletalk/names_table
the NBP names database

/usr/spool/appletalk/nbp_pid contains the process i.d. of the nbpd

SEE ALSO

nbp(3).

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