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nfsd(8) -- remote NFS server
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nfsd runs on a server machine to service NFS requests from client machines. At least one nfsd must be running for a machine to operate as a server. Unless otherwise specified, four servers for UDP tra... |
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nologin(8) -- politely refuse a login
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nologin displays a message that an account is not available and exits non-zero. It is intended as a replacement shell field for accounts that have been disabled. If the file /etc/nologin.txt exists, n... |
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nslookup(8) -- query Internet name servers interactively
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Nslookup is a program to query Internet domain name servers. |
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nsupdate(8) -- Dynamic DNS update utility
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nsupdate is used to submit Dynamic DNS Update requests as defined in RFC2136 to a name server. This allows resource records to be added or removed from a zone without manually editing the zone file. A... |
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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... |
