gfmd is a Gfarm filesystem metadata server for accessing
the filesystem metadata of the Gfarm filesystem. gfmd must
be running on a metadata server node in advance.
It is possible for gfmd to be executed as a non-privileged user
process, although only the user that executes the gfmd can be authenticated.
Other users cannot use it.
For details, see SETUP.private.en document
To access gfmd,
the hostname and the port number should be
specified by the metadb_server_host and metadb_server_port statements,
respectively, in ~/.gfarm2rc
or in %%SYSCONFDIR%%/gfarm2.conf
on a client node.
OPTIONS
-L log-level
Specifies a log priority level. The log output, which priority
is higher or equal to this level, will be sent to syslog or standard error.
Please refer gfarm2.conf(5) for the priority levels which can be specified
by this option.
-P pid-file
Specifies a file name to be used to record the process ID of gfmd.
-d
Specifies the debug mode. With the -d option, gfmd runs as a
foreground process, not a daemon.
If this option is specified and -L is not specified,
the log level is set to "debug".
-f config-file
Specifies a configuration file that is read instead of the default
configuration file.
-p port
Specifies a port number to be used by gfmd.
-s syslog-facility
Specifies a syslog facility to report errors encountered by gfmd.
By default,
local0 is used.
-v
Makes gfmd output verbose log message on authentication.
This is useful, when one has to resolve an issue about GSI authenticaion.