.\" -*- nroff -*-
.\" Copyright (C) 1995  Adam Migus, Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN)

.Dd Feb 03, 2001
.Dt RPC.RSTATD 8
.Os Linux
.Sh NAME
.Nm rpc.rstatd 
.Nd kernel statistics server
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm /usr/sbin/rpc.rstatd\fP [\fIINTERFACE\fR]...
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm rpc.rstatd
is a RPC daemon which collects performance statistics from
kernel on serving machine.  This implementation for the
.Nm Linux
Operating System also returns the number of users logged in on
the remote machine if the information is available.
.Pp
It also allows to specify which network interfaces to include
in the packet count. If no interface names are specified packets
from all interfaces besides the loopback interface are added up.
.Pp
The statistics are queried using
.Xr rup 1
,
.Xr perfmeter 1
, etc.
The
.Nm rpc.rstatd
daemon is normally invoked by
.Xr inetd 8 .
.Pp
.Nm rpc.rstatd
uses an RPC protocol defined in 
.Pa /usr/include/rpcsvc/rstat.x .
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr rup 1 ,
.Xr rsysinfo 1 ,
.Xr uptime 1 ,
.Xr inetd 8
.Sh AUTHORS
Adam Migus (amigus@cs.mun.ca),
Andreas Klingler (andreas.klingler@cyber-wizard.com)
Andreas Mueller (andreas.mueller@othello.ch)