rdistd(1)

rdistd1

Remote file distribution server program

Usage

rdistd [-DV] -S

Overview

rdistd is the server program for the rdist(1) command. It is normally run by rdist via ssh(1).

The options are as follows:

-D

Enable debugging messages. Messages are logged via syslog(3).

-S

This argument must be specified for normal usage. It exists to prevent the accidental execution of rdistd since it usually resides somewhere in a normal user's PATH.

-V

Print version information and exit.

Releases

61 releases since OpenBSD 2.1; the text changed 7 times.

  1. 2.1–2.3
  2. 2.4–2.5
  3. 2.6–3.3
  4. 3.4–4.0
  5. 4.1
  6. 4.2–4.5
  7. 4.6–5.5
  8. 5.6–8.0

-S since OpenBSD 3.4.

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