chbind.8 (1539B)
1 .TH "chbind" "8" "0.1.0" "Klavs Klavsen <kl@vsen.dk>" "System Administration" 2 .SH "NAME" 3 .LP 4 chbind \- The chbind utility is used to lock a process and its children into using a specific IP number/Interface. 5 .SH "SYNTAX" 6 .LP 7 chbind [\fI\-\-silent\fP] [\fI\-\-ip ip_number/interface\fP] <\fIcommand arguments\fP> 8 .SH "DESCRIPTION" 9 .LP 10 The chbind utility executes a command, and locks the resulting process and its children into using a specific IP number/Interface, no matter what it is told in it's configuration. This applies to services and client connection as well. 11 .SH "OPTIONS" 12 .LP 13 .TP 14 \fB\-\-ip\fR ip_number/interface 15 Binds the process to the given IP number or Interface. If an interface 16 is supplied (for example eth0), both the IP number and broadcast address 17 are extracted. 18 .TP 19 \fB\-\-bcast\fR broadcast address 20 Binds the process to the given broadcast IP number. 21 .TP 22 \fB\-\-silent\fR 23 Do not complain. 24 25 .SH "FILES" 26 .LP 27 \fI/usr/sbin/chbind\fP 28 29 30 .SH "EXAMPLES" 31 .LP 32 If I wanted to ensure my httpd listened only on my eth0 interface, I could do: 33 chbind \-\-ip eth0 /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd start 34 .LP 35 Please contribute some, if you feel it's important. 36 .SH "AUTHORS" 37 .LP 38 This Man page was written by Klavs Klavsen <kl@vsen.dk> and based upon the helpful output from the program itself and the documentation on the Virtual Server site <http://www.solucorp.qc.ca/miscprj/s_context.hc?prjstate=1&nodoc=0> 39 .SH "SEE ALSO" 40 .LP 41 chcontext(8) rebootmgr(8) reducecap(8) 42 vps(8) vpstree(8) vrpm(8) vserver(8) 43 vserver\-stat(8) vtop(8)