---
name: "omniNames"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "omniorb-nameserver"
version: "4.3.3+ds1-1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/omniNames/8"
---

# omniNames(8)

OmniORB Interoperable Naming Service

## NAME

omniNames - OmniORB Interoperable Naming Service

## SYNOPSIS

**omniNames** \[*options*\] \[*omniORB-options*\]

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **omniNames** command.

**omniNames** is omniORBs Interoperable Naming Service for CORBA, an implementation of the OMG's COS Naming Service Specification. To make it easy to use **omniNames** with *corbaname* URIs, it starts with the default port of 2809 and an object key of *NameService* for the root naming context.

When started for the first time **omniNames** needs to be told which port it should listen on.  This is specified with the *-start* option. Subsequentley **omniNames** will always determine its port from the log file which it writes.

When omniNames starts up successfully it writes the stringified object reference for its root context on standard error.

## OPTIONS

A summary of options is included below. For a complete description, see the HTML pages included in the omniorb-doc package.

- **-start \[***port***\]**

  This needs to be used the first time omniNames is run.  With no *port* argument the standard default of 2809 is used.

- **-logdir** *directory\_name*

  This specifies the directory where the log/data files are kept.  By default */var/lib/omniorb-nameserver/* is used.

- **-errlog** *file\_name*

  Where to redirect standard error output.

- **-ignoreport**

  Ignore the port specification.

## ENVIRONMENT

- OMNINAMES\_LOGDIR

  Alternate way to specify the directory where the log/data files are kept.

- OMNINAMES\_ITBC

  Idle time between checkpoints in seconds.  It defaults to 15 minutes.

## SEE ALSO

[**omniMapper**(8)](/omniMapper/8.md).\
 The programs are documented fully by the HTML documentation in the omniorb-doc package.

## AUTHOR

omniNames was written by Duncan Grisby \<duncan@grisby.org\>

This manual page was written by Floris Bruynooghe \<floris.bruynooghe@gmail.com\>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).