Name

netatalk — Netatalk AFP server service controller daemon

Synopsis

netatalk [-F configfile]

netatalk -v | -V

Description

netatalk is the service controller daemon responsible for starting and restarting the AFP daemon afpd and the CNID daemon cnid_metad. It is normally started at boot time by an init system (BSD-style init, SysV-sytle init, systemd, Upstart, OpenRC, SMF and so on).

Options

-d

Starts netatalk in non-forking mode, for debugging purposes.

-F configfile

Specifies the configuration file to use.

-v | -V

Print version information and exit.

Signals

SIGTERM

Stop Netatalk service, AFP and CNID daemons

SIGHUP

Sending a SIGHUP will cause the AFP daemon reload its configuration file.

Files

afp.conf

configuration file used by netatalk(8), afpd(8) and cnid_metad(8)

See Also

afpd(8), cnid_metad(8), afp.conf(5).

Author

See CONTRIBUTORS