RPC.RQUOTAD(8) | System Manager's Manual | RPC.RQUOTAD(8)

# NAME

`rquotad`, `rpc.rquotad` — remote quota server

# SYNOPSIS

`rpc.rquotad` |

# DESCRIPTION

`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.

# SEE ALSO

quota(1)

# BUGS

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

May 31, 2007 | Debian