---
name: "sfssd"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "sfs-server"
version: "1:0.8-0+pre20060720.1-1"
release: "Debian 4.0 (Etch)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/sfssd"
---

# sfssd(8)

SFS server daemon

## NAME

sfssd - SFS server daemon

## SYNOPSIS

sfssd \[-d\] \[-S *sfs-config-file*\] \[-f *config-file*\]

## DESCRIPTION

**sfssd** is the main server daemon run on SFS servers. **sfssd** itself does not serve any file systems.  Rather, it acts as a meta-server, accepting connections on TCP port 4 and passing them off to the appropriate daemon.  Ordinarily, **sfssd** passes all file system connections to **sfsrwsd**, and all user-key management connections to **sfsauthd**.  However, the *sfssd\_config* file () allows a great deal of customization, including support for \`\`virtual servers,'' multiple versions of the SFS software coexisting, and new SFS-related services other than the file system and user authentication.

## OPTIONS

- \-d

  Stay in the foreground and print messages to standard error rather than redirecting them to the system log.

- \-f *config-file*

  Specify an alternate **sfssd** configuration file.  The default, if **-f** is unspecified, is first to look for */etc/sfs/sfssd\_config*, then */usr/local/share/sfs/sfssd\_config*.

- \-S *sfs-config-file*

  Specify an alternate name for the *sfs\_config* file.  If *sfs-config-file* begins with a */*, then only this file is parsed.  Otherwise, all the directories */usr/local/share/sfs* and */etc/sfs* are searched in order, and if no file named *sfs-config-file* is found but a file *sfs\_config* is found, that file is parsed.  However, the process does not look in */etc/sfs* if *sfs-config-file* is found in */usr/local/share/sfs*.  Thus, if you create a file */etc/sfs/sfs-config-file*, it will override */etc/sfs/sfs\_config* while still incorporating the defaults from */usr/local/share/sfs/sfs\_config*.

## FILES

- */etc/sfs/sfssd\_config*

  - */usr/local/share/sfs/sfssd\_config*

  meta-server configuration

(Files in */etc/sfs* supersede default versions in */usr/local/share/sfs*.)

## SEE ALSO

[*dirsearch*(1)](/dirsearch/1.md), [*newaid*(1)](/newaid/1.md), [*rex*(1)](/rex/1.md), [*sfsagent*(1)](/sfsagent/1.md), [*sfskey*(1)](/sfskey/1.md), [*ssu*(1)](/ssu/1.md), *sfs\_config*(5), [*sfs\_hosts*(5)](/sfs_hosts/5.md), [*sfs\_srp\_params*(5)](/sfs_srp_params/5.md), [*sfs\_users*(5)](/sfs_users/5.md), [*sfsauthd\_config*(5)](/sfsauthd_config/5.md), [*sfscd\_config*(5)](/sfscd_config/5.md), *sfsrosd\_config*(5), [*sfsrwsd\_config*(5)](/sfsrwsd_config/5.md), [*sfssd\_config*(5)](/sfssd_config/5.md), [*sfs\_environ*(7)](/sfs_environ/7.md), [*funmount*(8)](/funmount/8.md), *nfsmounter*(8), [*sfsauthd*(8)](/sfsauthd/8.md), [*sfscd*(8)](/sfscd/8.md), *sfsrosd*(8), *sfsrwcd*(8), [*sfsrwsd*(8)](/sfsrwsd/8.md), [*vidb*(8)](/vidb/8.md)

The full documentation for **SFS** is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the **info** and **SFS** programs are properly installed at your site, the command **info SFS** should give you access to the complete manual.

For updates, documentation, and software distribution, please see the **SFS** website at *http://www.fs.net/*.

## AUTHOR

sfsdev@redlab.lcs.mit.edu