NAME

       dnetnml - DECnet Network Management Listener

SYNOPSIS

       dnetnml [options]
       Options:
       [-dVh]

DESCRIPTION

       dnetnml  is a daemon that serves incoming management requests from remote systems, usually
       NCP in the case of VMS and RSX. It is recommended that the daemon be  run  from  dnetd  by
       adding the following line to /etc/dnetd.conf:
       NML            19         N         nobody       dnetnml

       Currently it only serves a subset of information requests. These are (in NCP terms):
       SHOW KNOWN NODES
       SHOW ADJACENT NODES
       SHOW EXEC CHAR
       SHOW KNOWN OBJECTS
       SHOW KNOWN LINKS
       Note  that  for  SHOW  KNOWN  OBJECTS to work, /etc/dnetd.conf needs to be readable by the
       daemon user (usually 'nobody') or it will  return  a  Privilege  Violation.  There  is  no
       sensitive  data  in this file so it's quite OK to set the permissions to 0644. Though this
       is not the default.

OPTIONS

       -d     Don't fork and run the background. Use this for debugging.

       -v     Verbose. The more of these there are the more verbose dnetnml will  be.  Don't  use
              more than one for normal operation because it will seriously impair performance.

       -h -?  Displays help for using the command.

       -V     Show the version of dnetnml.

BUGS

       Probably  lots,  particularly  as  some  of the functions are undocumented and I've had to
       reverse-engineer them.  SHOW KNOWN LINKS doesn't show quite the same  information  as  VMS
       does.  dnetnml relies on the information it can get from /proc/net/decnet so it can't show
       load PIDs or processes unfortunately.

SEE ALSO

       dnetd(8), dnetd.conf(5)