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RPC.BOOTPARAMD(8)	  BSD System Manager's Manual	     RPC.BOOTPARAMD(8)

NAME
     bootparamd, rpc.bootparamd — boot parameter server

SYNOPSIS
     bootparamd [-ds] [-i interface] [-r router] [-f file]

DESCRIPTION
     bootparamd is a server process that provides information to diskless
     clients necessary for booting. It consults the file “/etc/bootparams”.
     It should normally be started from “/etc/rc”.

     This version will allow the use of aliases on the hostname in the
     “/etc/bootparams” file. The hostname returned in response to the booting
     client's whoami request will be the name that appears in the config file,
     not the canonical name.  In this way you can keep the answer short enough
     so that machines that cannot handle long hostnames won't fail during
     boot.

     While parsing, if a line containing just ``+'' is found, and the YP sub‐
     system is active, the YP map bootparams will be searched immediately.

OPTIONS
     -d	     Display the debugging information. The daemon does not fork in
	     this case.

     -i interface
	     Specify the interface to become the default router.  bootparamd
	     picks the first IPv4 address it finds on the system by default.
	     With -i, you can control which interface to be used to obtain the
	     default router address.  -r overrides -i.

     -s	     Log the debugging information with syslog(3).

     -r	     Set the default router (a hostname or IP-address).	 This defaults
	     to the machine running the server.

     -f	     Specify the file to use as boot parameter file instead of
	     “/etc/bootparams”.

FILES
     /etc/bootparams  default configuration file

SEE ALSO
     bootparams(5)

AUTHORS
     Originally written by Klas Heggemann ⟨klas@nada.kth.se⟩.

BUGS
     You may find the syslog messages too verbose.

     It's not clear if the non-canonical hack mentioned above is a good idea.

BSD				January 8, 1994				   BSD

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