rpc.rquotad(8)

rpc.rquotad8

Remote quota server

Usage

/usr/libexec/rpc.rquotad

Overview

The rpc.rquotad utility is a rpc(3) server which returns quotas for a user of a local file system which is NFS-mounted onto a remote machine. The quota(1) utility uses the results to display user quotas for remote file systems. The rpc.rquotad utility is normally invoked by inetd(8).

The rpc.rquotad utility uses an RPC protocol defined in /usr/include/rpcsvc/rquota.x.

Releases

83 releases since FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE; the text changed 40 times.

  1. 2.2.2–2.2.5
  2. 2.2.6–2.2.8
  3. 2.2.9
  4. 3.0–3.2
  5. 3.3–3.5.1
  6. 4.0–4.3
  7. 4.4–4.11
  8. 5.0–5.5
  9. 6.0–6.3
  10. 6.4
  11. 7.0
  12. 7.1
  13. 7.2
  14. 7.3
  15. 7.4
  16. 8.0
  17. 8.1
  18. 8.2
  19. 8.3
  20. 8.4
  21. 9.0
  22. 9.1
  23. 9.2
  24. 9.3
  25. 10.0
  26. 10.1
  27. 10.2
  28. 10.3
  29. 10.4
  30. 11.0
  31. 11.1
  32. 11.2
  33. 11.3
  34. 11.4
  35. 12.0
  36. 12.1
  37. 12.2
  38. 12.3
  39. 12.4
  40. 13.0–13.2
  41. 13.3–16.0

Bugs

4.4BSD and FreeBSD support group quotas but the rquota protocol does not.

From base 16.0-CURRENT-20261027-61c70dc16a79 in FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT (2026-10-27). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.