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ntalkd(8) -- remote user communication server
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Talkd is the server that notifies a user that someone else wants to initiate a conversation. It acts as a repository of invitations, responding to requests by clients wishing to rendezvous to hold a c... |
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ntpd(8) -- Network Time Protocol daemon
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The ntpd daemon synchronizes the local clock to one or more remote NTP servers, and can also act as an NTP server itself, redistributing the local time. It implements the Simple Network Time Protocol ... |
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pac(8) -- printer/plotter accounting information
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pac reads the printer/plotter accounting files, accumulating the number of pages (the usual case) or feet (for raster devices) of paper consumed by each named user, and prints out how much each user c... |
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macppc/pdisk(8) -- HFS(DPME) partition maintenance program
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pdisk is a menu driven program which partitions disks using the standard Apple disk partitioning scheme described in "Inside Macintosh: Devices". It does not support the intel/dos partitioning schem... |
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mac68k/pdisk(8) -- HFS(DPME) partition maintenance program
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pdisk is a menu driven program which partitions disks using the standard Apple disk partitioning scheme described in "Inside Macintosh: Devices". It does not support the intel/dos partitioning schem... |
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pfctl(8) -- control the packet filter (PF) and network address translation (NAT) device
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The pfctl utility communicates with the packet filter device using the ioctl interface described in pf(4). It allows ruleset and parameter configuration and retrieval of status information from the pa... |
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pflogd(8) -- packet filter logging daemon
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pflogd is a background daemon which reads packets logged by pf(4) to the packet logging interface pflog0 and writes the packets to a logfile (normally /var/log/pflog) in tcpdump(8) binary format. Thes... |
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ping(8) -- send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST packets to network hosts
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ping uses the ICMP protocol's mandatory ECHO_REQUEST datagram to elicit an ICMP ECHO_REPLY from a host or gateway. ECHO_REQUEST datagrams (``pings'') have an IP and ICMP header, followed by a ``str... |
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ping6(8) -- send ICMPv6 ECHO_REQUEST packets to network hosts
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ping6 uses the ICMPv6 protocol's mandatory ICMP6_ECHO_REQUEST datagram to elicit an ICMP6_ECHO_REPLY from a host or gateway. ICMP6_ECHO_REQUEST datagrams (``pings'') have an IPv6 header, and ICMPv6... |
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popa3d(8) -- Post Office Protocol (POP3) server
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popa3d is a POP3 server. It offers network access to user mailboxes through the POP3 protocol. The server uses the TCP protocol and listens at the port specified in the ``pop3'' service specificatio... |
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portmap(8) -- DARPA port to RPC program number mapper
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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 num... |
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ppp(8) -- Point to Point Protocol (a.k.a. user-ppp)
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This is a user process PPP software package. Normally, PPP is implemented as a part of the kernel (e.g., as managed by pppd(8)) and it's thus somewhat hard to debug and/or modify its behaviour. Howev... |
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pppctl(8) -- PPP control program
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This program provides command line control of the ppp(8) daemon. Its primary use is to facilitate simple scripts that control a running daemon. pppctl is passed at least one argument, specifying the s... |
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pppd(8) -- Point-to-Point Protocol daemon
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PPP is the protocol used for establishing internet links over dial-up modems, DSL connections, and many other types of point-topoint links. The pppd daemon works together with the kernel ppp(4) driver... |
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pppoe(8) -- PPP Over Ethernet translator
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The pppoe program can, with the help of ppp(8), act as a server or client for running PPP Over Ethernet. The options are as follows: -i interface Specify the interface that pppoe is to use, which shou... |
