RMTERMD(8)

💖 RMTERMD 💖

okay bestie, so we're talking about rmtermd from the System Manager's Manual section — she's an old-school DECnet terminal services girlie for Linux, and she is serving vintage realness. 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

rmtermd — old style DECnet terminal services for Linux 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

rmtermd
[options]
Options:
[-dvVh] [-l logtype]

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

So basically, this lets remote PDP-11 users connect as a terminal over DECnet. iconic of her honestly. 👑

This application implements the DTERM protocol over DECnet for allowing a remote DECnet host emulating a DEC VT100 terminal to connect to Linux. DTERM is the old OS-dependent network terminal protocol that predates CTERM — like, CTERM's grandma fr fr — and it's needed to support access from PDP-11 systems, which do not support CTERM. no cap, they just don't.

⚠️ lowkey important: this daemon implements the TOPS-20 variant of that protocol; the client at the other end has to speak that version. so like, you can't just show up with any old client, bestie, it's giving ✨exclusive✨.

For example, under DECnet/E (for RSTS/E) you have to use the "unsupported" multi-protocol version of set host. yes really, the unsupported one. the way that's just how it is 😭

Normally this daemon will be run from dnetd(8) rather than by hand. let the daemon do her thing, she knows what she's doing 💖

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -l — Set logging options. The following are available:
  • -lm — Log to /dev/mono. (only useful if you have my mono monitor driver or mdacon and a second monitor) — second monitor core energy, we love to see it 🖥️✨
  • -le — Log to stderr. Use this for debugging or testing combined with -d. perfect little duo 🫶
  • -ls — Log to syslog(3). This is the default if no options are given. the default queen 💅
• -d — Don't fork and run the background. Use this for debugging. she stays right there with you, no disappearing acts 🙈
• -v — Verbose. The more of these there are the more verbose rmtermd will be. stack 'em like bracelets, the yapping increases ⭐
• -h, -? — Displays help for using the command. our girl is helpful and supportive 🌸
• -V — Show the version of rmtermd. version check, slay 👑

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🎀 EXAMPLES 🎀

Starting the rmtermd daemon / Connecting to linux from a PDP-11.

On Linux:

# rmtermd

On the PDP-11:

$ set host pclnx

Rmtermd Version 1.0.0
DECnet for Linux

login:

the way that little login: prompt just appears and you're IN?? the crossover episode we all needed 🌈💖

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

dntype(1), dndir(1), dndel(1), dntask(1), ctermd(8), dnetd(8), dnping(1), sethost(1), dnetd.conf(5)

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okay that's the whole thing bestie, every flag and every line, nothing skipped, periodt 💅✨

mwah 💋 — this one's from the DECnet utilities, dated July 27 1998, and she's still cute after all these years 👑🦋