iscsid(8)

iscsid8

Iscsi (internet scsi) daemon

Usage

iscsid [-dv] [-n device] [-s socket]

Overview

iscsid is an Internet SCSI (iSCSI) initiator implementation.

iscsid is usually started at boot time.

A running iscsid can be controlled with the iscsictl(8) utility.

The options are as follows:

-d

Do not daemonize. If this option is specified, iscsid will run in the foreground and log to stderr.

-n device

Use an alternate /dev entry for communicating with the kernel.

-s socket

Use an alternate location for the default control socket.

-v

Produce more verbose output.

Files

/etc/iscsi.conf

Default iscsid configuration file.

/dev/vscsi0

Default device used to exchange SCSI messages with the kernel midlayer.

/var/run/iscsid.sock

UNIX-domain socket used for communication with iscsictl(8).

Releases

33 releases since OpenBSD 4.9; the text changed 7 times.

  1. 4.9–5.0
  2. 5.1
  3. 5.2
  4. 5.3
  5. 5.4
  6. 5.5–5.7
  7. 5.8–7.6
  8. 7.7–8.0

-v since OpenBSD 5.1.

Standards

Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI) Naming and Discovery, RFC 3721, April 2004.

Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) Protocol (Consolidated), RFC 7143, April 2014.

History

The iscsid program first appeared in OpenBSD 4.9.

Authors

Claudio Jeker ⟨[email protected]⟩.

From man 8.0-current-20261101 in OpenBSD 8.0-current (2026-11-01). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.