
A-166 Dell PowerVault 720N, 740N, and 760N System Administrator and Command Reference Guide
NAME
rmt - remote magtape protocol module
SYNOPSIS
/etc/rmt
DESCRIPTION
/etc/rmt
is a special command that can be used by remote computers to manip-
ulate a magnetic tape drive over a network connection; for example, the UNIX
dump
and
restore
commands often can either use
/etc/rmt
to access a remote
tape, or have
rdump
and
rrestore
variants that can do so.
/etc/rmt
is normally
run by the
rshd
daemon (see
rshd
) as a result of a remote machine making a
request to
rshd
to do so.
The
/etc/rmt
command accepts requests specific to the manipulation of mag-
netic tapes, performs the commands, then responds with a status indication.
This protocol is provided by
rmt
commands on many UNIX systems, although
UNIX systems may support more commands and may give more different error
codes.
All responses are in ASCII and in one of two forms. Successful commands have
responses of:
A
number
\n
number
is an ASCII representation of a decimal number. Unsuccessful com-
mands are responded to with:
E
error
-
number\
n
error
-
message\
n
error
-
number
is one of:
2 (ENOENT)
The tape device specified in an open request did not have a valid syntax.
6 (ENXIO)
The tape device specified in an open request does not exist.
5 (EIO)
An I/O error occurred when performing the request.
25
(ENOTTY)
An invalid tape operation was specified in a perform special tape operation
request.
error
-
message
is a (UNIX-style) error string for the error specified by
error
-
number
.
rmt
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