NAME¶

unixserver - UNIX domain socket server

SYNOPSIS¶

unixserver [options] socket program

DESCRIPTION¶

Unixserver is UNIX domain socket server that conform to UCSPI, the UNIX Client-Server Program Interface.

OPTIONS¶

-q

Quiet. Do not print any messages.

-Q

(default) Print error messages.

-v

Verbose. Print error and status messages.

-d

Do not delete the socket file on exit.

-D

(default) Delete the socket file on exit.

-u UID

Change user id to UID after creating socket.

-g GID

Change group id to GID after creating socket.

-U

Same as '-u $UID -g $GID'.

-o UID

Make the socket owned by UID.

-r GID

Make the socket group owned by GID.

-O

Same as '-o $SOCKET_UID -r $SOCKET_GID'.

-p PERM

Set the permissions on the created socket (in octal). Note: this option, if set, overrides the mask below. (defaults to 0666 minus umask)

-m MASK

Set umask to MASK (in octal) before creating socket. (defaults to 0, previous value is restored afterwards)

-c N

Do not handle more than N simultaneous connections. (default 10)

-b N

Allow a backlog of N connections.

-B BANNER

Write BANNER to the client immediately after connecting.

SEE ALSO¶

unixclient(1), unixcat(1) http://cr.yp.to/proto/ucspi.txt

AUTHOR¶

ucspi-unix package was written by Bruce Guenter <bruceg@em.ca>

This manual page was originally written by Tomas Kuliavas <tokul@bigfoot.com> for the Debian GNU/Linux system, but may be used elsewhere under the GPL.