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gapd(8)

gapd8

Gap daemon

Usage

gapd [{-h HOST | -a | -l | -u}] [-p PORT] [-t [MODE]] [--infolevel [{-scscp | -master}] LEVEL] [--help] [--version]

Overview

GAP Daemon - GAP SCSCP server daemon

Options

-h HOST

Start at host HOST: HOST may be given as machine name with or without domain or as 'localhost' (see option -l for that purpose).

-a

Set server address to the one given by hostname(1).

-l

Start at localhost: reject incoming any connection from the outside.

-u

Start in `universal' mode: accept all incoming connections.

-p PORT

Set server port to PORT, default port set in `/etc/scscp/gap/config.g'.

-t MODE

Redirect the server session output according to the following MODEs: MODE=no sink the output to `/dev/null' (default behaviour); MODE=log redirect the output to `/var/log/gapd/gapd.log'; MODE=yes redirect the output to a temporary file, which name is displayed (and printed to `/var/log/gapd/gapd.log' for granted users); the implicit mode is MODE=yes for backward compatibility.

--infolevel-scscp LEVEL

Set the GAP InfoLevel for SCSCP to LEVEL.

--infolevel-master LEVEL

Set the GAP InfoLevel for MasterWorker to LEVEL.

--infolevel LEVEL

Indiscriminately set the GAP InfoLevel_s to LEVEL.

--help

Print this help text and exit.

--version

Output version information and exit.

Files

/etc/scscp/gap/server.g

This file is the GAP SCSCP server configuration file on Debian system: it loads all necessary packages, reads all needed code, installs all procedures which will be exposed to the client and finally starts the SCSCP server itself.

/etc/scscp/gap/config.g

This file sets the default parameters needed by the GAP SCSCP package; it is fully commented.

/etc/scscp/gap/

This directory is meant to be the default location on Debian system for all systemwide configuration material needed by the GAP SCSCP server and any GAP SCSCP client.

History

  • Debian 13 (Trixie): the text shown here
  • Debian 12 (Bookworm)
  • Debian 11 (Bullseye)
  • Debian 10 (Buster)
  • Debian 9 (Stretch)
  • Debian 8 (Jessie)

Authors

Alexander Konovalov and Steve Linton. The GAP Daemon script gapd was slightly improved with backward compatibility and documented hereby by Jerome Benoit on behalf of the Debian Science Team (August 2014).

From gap-scscp 2.4.3+ds-1 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.