NAME

       afpd - Apple Filing Protocol daemon

SYNOPSIS

       afpd [-d] [-F configfile]

       afpd -v | -V | -h

DESCRIPTION

       afpd provides an Apple Filing Protocol (AFP) interface to the Unix file system. It is
       normally started at boot time by netatalk(8).

       @pkgconfdir@/afp.conf is the configuration file used by afpd to determine the behavior and
       configuration of a file server.

OPTIONS

       -d
           Specifies that the daemon should not fork.

       -v
           Print version information and exit.

       -V
           Print verbose information and exit.

       -h
           Print help and exit.

       -F configfile
           Specifies the configuration file to use. (Defaults to @pkgconfdir@/afp.conf.)

SIGNALS

       To shut down a user's afpd process it is recommended that SIGKILL (-9) NOT be used, except
       as a last resort, as this may leave the CNID database in an inconsistent state. The safe
       way to terminate an afpd is to send it a SIGTERM (-15) signal and wait for it to die on
       its own.

       SIGTERM and SIGUSR1 signals that are sent to the main afpd process are propagated to the
       children, so all will be affected.

       SIGTERM
           Clean exit. Propagates from master to childs.

       SIGQUIT
           Send this to the master afpd, it will exit leaving all children running! Can be used
           to implement AFP service without downtime.

       SIGHUP
           Sending a SIGHUP to afpd will cause it to reload its configuration files.

       SIGINT
           Sending a SIGINT to a child afpd enables max_debug logging for this process. The log
           is sent to the file /tmp/afpd.PID.XXXXXX. Sending another SIGINT will revert to the
           original log settings.

       SIGUSR1
           The afpd process will send the message "The server is going down for maintenance." to
           the client and shut itself down in 5 minutes. New connections are not allowed. If this
           is sent to a child afpd, the other children are not affected. However, the main
           process will still exit, disabling all new connections.

       SIGUSR2
           The afpd process will look in the message directory configured at build time for a
           file named message.pid. For each one found, a the contents will be sent as a message
           to the associated AFP client. The file is removed after the message is sent. This
           should only be sent to a child afpd.

FILES

       @pkgconfdir@/afp.conf
           configuration file used by afpd

       /var/lib/netatalk/afp_signature.conf
           list of server signature

       /var/lib/netatalk/afp_voluuid.conf
           list of UUID for Time Machine volume

       @pkgconfdir@/extmap.conf
           file name extension mapping

       @pkgconfdir@/msg/message.pid
           contains messages to be sent to users.

SEE ALSO

       netatalk(8), hosts_access(5), afp.conf(5), afp_signature.conf(5), afp_voluuid.conf(5),
       extmap.conf(5), dbd(1).