NAME

ggated — GEOM Gate network daemon

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

The ggated utility is a network server for the GEOM Gate class. It runs on a server machine to service GEOM Gate requests from workers placed on a client machine. Keep in mind, that connections between ggatec(8) and ggated are not encrypted.

Available options:

-a address

Specifies an IP address to bind to.

-h

Print available options.

-n

Do not use TCP_NODELAY option on TCP sockets.

-p port

Port on which ggated listens for connections. Default is 3080.

-F pidfile

PID file that ggated uses.

-R rcvbuf

Size of receive buffer to use. Default is 131072 (128kB).

-S sndbuf

Size of send buffer to use. Default is 131072 (128kB).

-v

Do not fork, run in foreground and print debug information on standard output.

exports file

An alternate location for the exports file.

The format of an exports file is as follows:

1.2.3.4		RO	/dev/cd0
1.2.3.0/24	RW	/tmp/test.img
hostname	WO	/tmp/image

FILES

/var/run/ggated.pid

The default location of the ggated PID file.

EXIT STATUS

Exit status is 0 on success, or 1 if the command fails. To get details about the failure, ggated should be called with the -v option.

EXAMPLES

Export CD-ROM device and a file:

# echo "1.2.3.0/24 RO /dev/cd0" > /etc/gg.exports
# echo "client RW /image" >> /etc/gg.exports
# ggated

SEE ALSO

geom(4), ggatec(8), ggatel(8)

HISTORY

The ggated utility appeared in FreeBSD 5.3.

AUTHORS

The ggated utility as well as this manual page was written by Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>.