SNAMES(1)

NAME
snames - simple name server

SYNOPSIS
snames [-d] [command args...]

DESCRIPTION
snames(1) is a simple server implementing the netname name service. It is like a netmsgserver which doesn't know about networks.

By default, snames tries to become the primary name service for the machine. In this mode, it takes no arguments. Otherwise, snames becomes a secondary name service. In this mode, it takes a command (often a shell) to run under the secondary name service.

snames interprets the following options:

-d  Turns on debugging. snames will print informative messages to stderr when clients register and lookup ports.

SEE ALSO
netname(3), netmsgserver(8).