.\"Copyright 1995 Adam Migus (amigus@cs.mun.ca)
.TH RSYSINFO 1 "DECEMBER 1, 1995" "Linux 1.2" "Linux Programmer's Manuel"
.SH NAME
rsysinfo \- remote system information display
.SH SYNOPSIS
\fBrsysinfo\fP [ \fIhost\fP | -v ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
\fBrsysinfo\fP displays a summary of the kernel statistics of a  particular 
host.
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The output shows how long the system has been up, load averages,
cpu usage in jiffies, pages from and to the disk, the number of
interupts recieved, and the number of context switches.
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The load average numbers give the number of jobs in the run queue 
averaged over 1, 5 and 15 minutes, all other fields are appropriatly
labelled. 
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The \fBrpc.rstatd(8)\fP daemon must be running on the remote host 
for this command to work.
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\fBrsysinfo\fP uses an RPC protocol defined in /usr/include/rpcsvc/rstat.x
.SH "COMMAND LINE OPTIONS" 
.TP
\fB-v\fP
prints the current version of rsysinfo and exits
.TP
.SH DIAGNOSTICS
.TP
rsysinfo: RPC: Program not registered
The \fBrpc.rstatd(8)\fP daemon has not been started on the remote host.
.TP
rsysinfo: RPC: Timed out
A communication error occurred.  Either the network is excessively 
congested, or the \fBrpc.rstatd(8)\fP daemon has terminated on the 
remote host.
.TP
rsysinfo: RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC: Timed out
The remote host is not running the portmapper (see \fBrpc.rstatd(8)\fP)
and cannot accomodate any RPC-based services.  The host may be down.
.SH SEE ALSO
\fBportmap(8)\fP, \fBrpc.rstatd(8)\fP, \fBinetd(8)\fP
.SH HISTORY
The \fBrsysinfo\fP command written for \fBLinux\fP.
.SH AUTHOR
Adam Migus (amigus@cs.mun.ca)