ractl(8)

ractl8

Control the rad daemon

Usage

ractl [-s socket] command [argument ...]

Overview

The ractl program controls the rad(8) daemon.

The following options are available:

-s socket

Use socket instead of the default /var/run/rad.sock to communicate with rad(8).

The following commands are available:

log brief

Disable verbose debug logging.

log verbose

Enable verbose debug logging.

reload

Reload the configuration file.

Files

/var/run/rad.sock

UNIX-domain socket used for communication with rad(8).

Releases

Unchanged in 18 releases since OpenBSD 6.4.

  1. 6.4–8.0

History

The ractl program first appeared in OpenBSD 6.4.

From man 8.0-current-20261101 in OpenBSD 8.0-current (2026-11-01). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.