rquotad(8)

rquotad8

Remote quota server

Usage

rpc.rquotad [-sSFI] [-p port]

Overview

rquotad is an rpc(3) server which returns quotas for a user of a local filesystem which is mounted by a remote machine over the NFS. It also allows setting of quotas on NFS mounted filesystem (if configured during compilation and allowed by a command line option -S). The results are used by quota(1) to display user quotas for remote filesystems and by edquota(8) to set quotas on remote filesystems. rquotad daemon uses tcp-wrappers library (under service name rquotad) which allows you to specify hosts allowed/disallowed to use the daemon (see hosts.allow(5) manpage for more information). The rquotad daemon is normally started at boot time from the system startup scripts.

Options

-V, --version

Shows version of quota tools.

-s, --no-setquota

Don't allow setting of quotas (default). This option is available only if utilities were compiled with the rpcsetquota option.

-S, --setquota

Allow setting of quotas. This option is available only if utilities were compiled with the rpcsetquota option.

-F, --foreground

Run daemon in foreground (may be useful for debugging purposes).

-I, --autofs

Do not ignore autofs mountpoints.

-p port, --port port

Listen on alternate port port.

-x path, --xtab path

Set an alternative file with NFSD export table. This file is used to determine pseudoroot of NFSv4 exports. The pseudoroot is then prepended to each relative path (i.e. a path not beginning by '/') received in a quota RPC request.

Files

aquota.user or aquota.group

quota file at the filesystem root (version 2 quota, non-XFS filesystems)

quota.user or quota.group

quota file at the filesystem root (version 1 quota, non-XFS filesystems)

/etc/mtab

default filesystems

Releases

13 releases since Debian 1.1 (Buzz); the text changed 5 times.

  1. 1.1–1.3
  2. 2.0–2.2
  3. 3.0
  4. 3.1–4.0
  5. 5.0
  6. 6.0–8

--autofs since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); --foreground since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); --no-setquota since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); --port since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); --setquota since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); --version since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); --xtab since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); -F since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); -I since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); -S since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); -V since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); -p since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); -s since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); -x since Debian 5.0 (Lenny).

From quota 4.01-8+deb8u1 in Debian 8 (Jessie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.