.TH SRV 4 
.SH NAME
srv, 9fs \- start network file service
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B srv
[
.B -abcCmqr
]
.RI [ net !] system\c
.RI [! service ]
[
.I srvname
[
.I mtpt
] ]
.PP
.B 9fs
.RI [ net !] system
.RI [ mountpoint ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I Srv
dials the given machine and initializes the connection to serve the
9P protocol.
It then creates in
.B /srv
a file named
.IR srvname .
Users can then
.B mount
(see
.IR bind (1))
the service, typically on a name in
.BR /n ,
to access the files provided by the remote machine.
If
.I srvname
is omitted, the first argument to
.B srv
is used.
Option
.B m
directs
.I srv
to mount the service on
.BI /n/ system
or onto
.I mtpt
if it is given.
Option
.B q
suppresses complaints if the
.B /srv
file already exists.
The 
.BR a ,
.BR b ,
.BR c ,
and
.B C 
flags are used to control the mount flag as in
.IR bind (1).
.PP
The specified
.I service
must serve 9P.  Usually
.I service
can be omitted; when calling some
non-Plan 9 systems, a
.I service
such as
.B u9fs
must be mentioned explicitly.
.PP
The
.I 9fs
command does the
.I srv
and the
.I mount
necessary to make available the files of
.I system
on network
.IR net .
The files are mounted on
.IR mountpoint ,
if given;
otherwise they are mounted on
.BI /n/ system\f1.
If
.I system
contains
.L /
characters, only the last element of
.I system
is used in the
.B /n
name.
.PP
.I 9fs
recognizes some special names, such as
.B dump
to make the dump file system available on
.BR /n/dump .
.I 9fs
is an
.IR rc (1)
script; examine it to see what local conventions apply.
.SH EXAMPLES
To see kremvax's and deepthought's files in
.B /n/kremvax
and
.BR /n/deepthought :
.IP
.EX
9fs kremvax
9fs hhgttg/deepthought
.EE
.SH NOTE
The TCP port used for 9P is 564.
.SH FILES
.TF /srv/*
.TP
.B /srv/*
ports to file systems and servers posted by
.I srv
and
.I 9fs
.SH SOURCE
.B /sys/src/cmd/srv.c
.br
.B /rc/bin/9fs
.br
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.IR bind (1),
.IR dial (2),
.IR srv (3),
.IR ftpfs (4)