NIBINDD

Section: Maintenance Commands (8)
Updated: March 23, 1989
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NAME

nibindd - NetInfo binder

SYNOPSIS

nibindd

DESCRIPTION

The nibindd daemon is responsible for finding, creating and destroying NetInfo (netinfod(8)) servers. When it starts up, it reads the directory /etc/netinfo for directories with the extension ``.nidb'' and starts up a netinfod server for each NetInfo database it finds. If nibindd is sent a hangup signal, SIGHUP, it kills all running netinfod processes and rebinds the NetInfo domain hierarchy (note that this does not affect the connections established by lookupd(8)). This is useful for getting the system to conform to new network configuration changes without rebooting. nibindd writes a file with its process ID number (pid file) in /etc/nibindd.pid.

The nibindd daemon will automatically destroy the registration for a netinfod server if it disappears for any reason. It will take the netinfod servers down if it is shut down by sending it a terminate signal, SIGTERM.

nidomain(8) is the user interface to nibindd.

FILES

/etc/netinfo
/etc/nibindd.pid