[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2002, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] The `settrans` command is used to attach a [[translator]] (server) to a given [[file_system_node|virtual_file_system]]. `settrans` is commonly used like this: $ settrans -fgap *NODE* *TRANSLATOR SETTING* * `fg`, **f**orce any existing translator to **g**o away from that node. * `ap`, start an ***a**ctive translator*, and also establish a ***p**assive translator* setting. *Active translator* means that the operating system starts the translator immediately and *passive translator* in turn means that the settings are instead saved in the file system node, and then, when programs access the node by, for example, sending an [[RPC]], the Hurd will transparently start the server to handle the request. Help on settrans can be obtained by passing it the `--help` option. Likewise, help on a specific translator can be gotten by invoking it from the command line with the same argument, e.g.: $ /hurd/pfinet --help As there can be a lot of output, consider piping this through a pager.