rpc.rquotad(8)

rpc.rquotad8

Remote quota server

Usage

rpc.rquotad

Overview

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

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

Releases

61 releases since OpenBSD 2.1; the text changed 5 times.

  1. 2.1–2.4
  2. 2.5
  3. 2.6–2.7
  4. 2.8–3.3
  5. 3.4–4.1
  6. 4.2–8.0

Bugs

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

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