NETATALK(8)

Name
netatalk — Netatalk AFP server service controller daemon

Synopsis
netatalk [-F configfile]

netatalk [-v | -V]

Description
netatalk is the daemon used to control the Netatalk AFP file server, which is made up of multiple forking daemons. For most deployments you would use netatalk for centralized control rather than launching and stopping each daemon individually. The netatalk daemon is normally started at boot time by an init system.

The controller daemon will launch the AFP daemon afpd and the CNID meta daemon cnid_metad. The latter will in turn launch the CNID database daemon cnid_dbd.

The configurations of all four daemons are managed in a single configuration file called afp.conf.

Options
-d

    Do not disassociate daemon from terminal.

-F configfile

    Specifies the configuration file to use.

-v | -V

    Print version information and exit.

Signals
SIGTERM

    Stop the Netatalk AFP and CNID daemons.

SIGHUP

    Sending a SIGHUP will cause the Netatalk AFP and CNID daemons to reload their configurations from afp.conf.

Files
afp.conf

    configuration file used by netatalk(8), afpd(8) and cnid_metad(8)

See Also
afpd(8), cnid_metad(8), afp.conf(5)

Author
Contributors to the Netatalk Project (https://netatalk.io/contributors)