Query: rmt
OS: opensolaris
Section: 1m
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rmt(1M) System Administration Commands rmt(1M)NAMErmt - remote magtape protocol moduleSYNOPSIS/usr/sbin/rmtDESCRIPTIONrmt is a program used by the remote dump and restore programs in manipulating a magnetic tape drive through an interprocess communication connection. rmt is normally started up with an rexec(3SOCKET) or rcmd(3SOCKET) call. The rmt program accepts requests that are specific to the manipulation of magnetic tapes, performs the commands, then responds with a sta- tus indication. All responses are in ASCII and in one of two forms. Successful commands have responses of: Anumber where number is an ASCII representation of a decimal number. Unsuccessful commands are responded to with: Eerror-number error-message where error-number is one of the possible error numbers described in intro(3), and error-message is the corresponding error string as printed from a call to perror(3C). The protocol consists of the following commands: S Return the status of the open device, as obtained with a MTIOCGET ioctl call. If the operation was successful, an "ack" is sent with the size of the status buffer, then the status buffer is sent (in binary). Cdevice Close the currently open device. The device specified is ignored. Ioperation count Perform a MTIOCOP ioctl(2) command using the specified parameters. The parameters are interpreted as the ASCII representations of the decimal values to place in the mt_op and mt_count fields of the structure used in the ioctl call. When the operation is successful the return value is the count parameter. Loffset whence Perform an lseek(2) operation using the specified parameters. The response value is returned from the lseek call. Odevice mode Open the specified device using the indicated mode. device is a full pathname, and mode is an ASCII representation of a decimal number suitable for passing to open(9E). If a device is already open, it is closed before a new open is performed. Rcount Read count bytes of data from the open device. rmt performs the requested read(9E) and responds with Acount-read if the read was successful; otherwise an error in standard format is returned. If the read was successful, the data read is sent. Wcount Write data onto the open device. rmt reads count bytes from the connection, aborting if a premature EOF is encoun- tered. The response value is returned from the write(9E) call. Any other command causes rmt to exit.ATTRIBUTESSee attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWrcmdc | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+SEE ALSOufsdump(1M), ufsrestore(1M), intro(3), ioctl(2), lseek(2), perror(3C), rcmd(3SOCKET), rexec(3SOCKET), attributes(5), mtio(7I), open(9E), read(9E), write(9E)DIAGNOSTICSAll responses are of the form described above.BUGSDo not use this for a remote file access protocol. SunOS 5.11 6 Nov 2000 rmt(1M)
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