---
name: "pawserv"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "pawserv"
version: "20061220+dfsg3-4.4"
release: "Debian 10 (Buster)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/pawserv"
---

# pawserv(8)

CERNLIB program for serving PAW histograms remotely

## NAME

pawserv - CERNLIB program for serving PAW histograms remotely

## DESCRIPTION

**pawserv** is the server for distributed PAW.  It listens for connections on port 345.  **pawserv** is not in general run from the command line, but only via [**inetd**(8)](/inetd/8.md).   From the PAW client side, a remote PAW session is invoked with the RLOGIN *hostname* command.  Distributed PAW is documented fully in chapter 8 of the PAW user's guide, available in PostScript format at this URL:

http://wwwinfo.cern.ch/asdoc/psdir/paw.ps.gz

Please note that **pawserv** receives unencrypted passwords over the network. It should therefore be used only within a trusted LAN.

## FILES

• */etc/inetd.conf* - specifies how inetd should call pawserv

## SEE ALSO

• [**paw**(1)](/paw/1.md)\
 • [**inetd**(8)](/inetd/8.md)\
 • [**inetd.conf**(5)](/inetd.conf/5.md)

**pawserv** is part of the CERNLIB CSPACK package, which is documented at http://wwwinfo.cern.ch/asdoc/psdir/cspack.ps.gz (PostScript) or http://wwwinfo.cern.ch/asdoc/WWW/cspack/cspmain/cspmain.html (HTML).

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Kevin McCarty \<kmccarty@debian.org\> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).