List of NFS daemons
There are many daemons associated with NFS.
Following is a list of NFS locking daemons:
- lockd
- Processes lock requests through the RPC package
- statd
- Provides crash-and-recovery functions for the locking services on NFS
Following is a list of network service daemons and utilities:
- biod
- Sends the client's read and write requests to the server
- mountd
- Answers requests from clients for file system mounts
- nfsd
- Starts the daemons that handle a client's request for file system operations
- pcnfsd
- Handles service requests from PC-NFS clients
- nfsstat
- Displays information about a machine's ability to receive calls
- on
- Executes commands on remote machines
- portmap
- Maps RPC program numbers to Internet port numbers
- rexd
- Accepts request to run programs from remote machines
- rpcgen
- Generates C code to implement an RPC protocol
- rpcinfo
- Reports the status of RPC servers
- rstatd
- Returns performance statistics obtained from the kernel
- rup
- Shows the status of a remote host on the local network
- rusers
- Reports a list of users logged on to the remote machines
- rusersd
- Responds to queries from the rusers command
- rwall
- Sends messages to all users on the network
- rwalld
- Handles requests from the rwall command
- showmount
- Displays a list of all clients that have mounted remote file systems
- spray
- Sends a specified number of packets to a host
- sprayd
- Receives packets sent by the spray command
Following is a list of secure networking daemons and utilities:
- chkey
- Changes the user's encryption key
- keyenvoy
- Provides an intermediary between user processes and the key server
- keylogin
- Decrypts and stores the user's secret key
- keyserv
- Stores public and private keys
- mkkeyserv
- Starts the keyserv daemon and uncomments the appropriate entries in the /etc/rc.nfs file
- newkey
- Creates a new key in the public key file
- rmkeyserv
- Stops the keyserv daemon and comments the entry for the keyserv daemon in the /etc/rc.nfs file
- ypupdated
- Updates information in Network Information Service (NIS) maps
Following is a diskless client support configuration file:
- bootparamd
- Provides information necessary for booting to diskless clients
Following is a list of NFS subroutines:
- cbc_crypt(), des_setparity(), or ecb_crypt()
- Implements Data Encryption Standard (DES) routines.