rpcsvchost(8) System Manager's Manual rpcsvchost(8)

rpcsvchost — hosting environment for DCE/RPC services

rpcsvchost [options] service [service ...]

rpcsvchost is a very simple environment for hosting DCE/RPC services. It loads DCE/RPC services from the list of plugins given as arguments, binds to an appropriate set of endpoints and listens for protocol requests.

If service is not a relative file name, it is assumed to be the name of a dylib located in /usr/lib/rpcsvc.

-nodebug
rpcsvchost will log debug information and may perform extra diagnostic checks. This option is typically only useful for debugging.
BINDING [,BINDING]
This argument specifies additional endpoints that rpcsvchost should attempt to bind. BINDING must be a comma-separated list of DCE/RPC binding strings that include both the protocol sequence and endpoint fields.
Prints a usage message and exits.
-nolaunchd
Normally, rpcsvchost attempts to bind all the well-known endpoints specified by the service plugins. If there are no well-known endpoints, it will bind new endpoints on all supported protocol sequences. The -launchd option disables this behavior and causes rpcsvchost to check in with launchd(8) to obtain a set of sockets to bind as protocol endpoints.

Launchd sockets vended to rpcsvchost must be named with the appropriate DCE/RPC protocol sequence (eg. "ncacn_np").

-nosandbox
When this option is specified, the modules loaded by rpcsvchost will be run in a sandbox. rpcsvchost will attempt to intialize the sandbox using the sandbox profile with the name com.apple.<module-name>.sb. See sandbox(7) for an overview of the sandbox facility.
-noregister
When this option is specified, rpcsvchost attempts to register the loaded services with the DCE/RPC endpoint mapper.
Causes rpcsvchost to print log messages to standard output instead of the system log.
Causes rpcsvchost to wait for a debugger to attach after it has loaded and initialized its plugins. This is useful for debugging instances of rpcsvchost that are launched by launchd(8).

The rpcsvchost utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

launchd.plist(5), launchd(8), sandbox(7)

The rpcsvchost utility first appeared in Mac OS 10.7.

Wed Nov 4 21:01:31 PST 2009 Darwin