zsnapd-rcmd command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix zsnapd-rcmd command not found error message

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

zsnapd-rcmd: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: zsnapd-rcmd: command not found

Solutions to zsnapd-rcmd: command not found

How To Fix zsnapd-rcmd: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu zsnapd-rcmd is provided by zsnapd-rcmd package.

zsnapd-rcmd is:

ZFS Snapshot Daemon is written in python, and it can remotely manage ZFS snapshotting and backup from a central back up server. This is the security plugin command for sshd that implements ForceCommand functionality, or the command functionality in the .ssh/authorized_keys file (See the sshd_config(8) and sshd(8) man pages respectively).

It executes commands from the SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND variable after checking them against a list of configured regular expressions.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install zsnapd-rcmd

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install zsnapd-rcmd.

sudo apt -y install zsnapd-rcmd

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install zsnapd-rcmd

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix zsnapd-rcmd command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.