Ubuntu Manpage: afpd - Apple Filing Protocol daemon

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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.

AUTHOR

       See CONTRIBUTORS[1]

NOTES

        1. CONTRIBUTORS
           https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk/blob/main/CONTRIBUTORS

Netatalk 3.1.18                                    19 Jan 2013                                           AFPD(8)