On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 01:23:58PM -0600, Jamie Seeman wrote: > I've been working on tightening my box down, and I was wondering what > rpc.statd is and does. I found it listening on port(s): Wonder of wonders... rpc.statd(8) rpc.statd(8) NAME rpc.statd - NSM status monitor SYNOPSIS /sbin/rpc.statd [-F] [-d] [-?] [-n name ] [-o port ] [-p port ] [-V] DESCRIPTION The rpc.statd server implements the NSM (Network Status Monitor) RPC protocol. This service is somewhat misnomed, since it doesn't actually provide active monitoring as one might suspect; instead, NSM implements a reboot notifica tion service. It is used by the NFS file locking service, rpc.lockd, to implement lock recovery when the NFS server machine crashes and reboots. ... -- Chad Walstrom <chewie at wookimus.net> | a.k.a. ^chewie http://www.wookimus.net/ | s.k.a. gunnarr Key fingerprint = B4AB D627 9CBD 687E 7A31 1950 0CC7 0B18 206C 5AFD -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20011120/ff4bfb58/attachment.pgp