RQUOTAD(8)

💖 rpc.rquotad — remote quota server 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the manual page for rpc.rquotad, aka rpc.rquotad(8), a System Manager's Manual girly. she's giving remote quota server energy and honestly? she's iconic. let's get into it 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

/usr/sbin/rpc.rquotad [ -FI ] [ -p port ] [ -s | -S ] [ -x path ]

/usr/sbin/rpc.rquotad [ -h | -V ]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so rpc.rquotad is an rpc(3) server, and what she does is return quotas for a user of a local filesystem that some remote machine has mounted over NFS. 💅 she can also let you set quotas on an NFS mounted filesystem — but ONLY if that got configured during compilation AND it's allowed by the command line option -S. no cap.

who's using her output? two besties:

• quota(1), to display user quotas for remote filesystems
• edquota(8), to set quotas on remote filesystems

the rquotad daemon uses the tcp-wrappers library (under the service name rquotad), which is the whole reason you get to specify which hosts are allowed / disallowed to use the daemon — go read hosts.allow(5) for the tea. 📖✨

and normally? the rquotad daemon gets started at boot time from the system startup scripts. she wakes up with the computer, main character energy fr fr. 👑

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -h, --help — shows the program usage and exits. that's it, that's the tweet.
• -V, --version — shows the version of quota tools. slay, know your lineage.
• -s, --no-setquota — do NOT allow setting of quotas. this is the default, bestie. heads up tho: this option is only available if the utilities were compiled with the rpcsetquota option. 🎀
• -S, --setquota — allow setting of quotas. also only available if the utilities were compiled with the rpcsetquota option. lowkey a whole permission slip situation.
• -F, --foreground — run the daemon in the foreground. may be useful for debugging purposes, aka when you're deep in the trenches at 3am going "why 😭".
• -I, --autofs — do not ignore autofs mountpoints. she sees them, she acknowledges them, she's obsessed.
• -p port, --port port — listen on an alternate port port. pick your own door, queen. 🚪
• -x path, --xtab path — set an alternative file with the NFSD export table. this file is used to determine the pseudoroot of NFSv4 exports. the pseudoroot then gets prepended to each relative path (i.e. a path that does not begin with '/') received in a quota RPC request. yes, prepended. read it twice, it matters. ⭐

🎀 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

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

quota(1), rpc(3), nfs(5), services(5), inetd(8)

🌈 and that's the whole page bestie!! now go forth and quota responsibly. 💖

RQUOTAD(8) — that's the manual section name and the version tag, and she's a System Manager's Manual girlie. mwah, xoxo, see u in the group chat. 💜✨