rpc.statd (8)

SYNOPSIS

/usr/sbin/rpc.statd [-F]

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 notification service. It is used by the NFS file locking service, rpc.lockd , to implement lock recovery when the NFS server machine crashes and reboots. For each NFS client or server machine to be monitored, rpc.statd creates a file in /var/lib/nfs/sm . When starting, it iterates through these files and notifies the peer rpc.statd on those machines.

OPTIONS

-F

By default, rpc.statd forks and puts itself in the background when started. The -F argument tells it to remain in the foreground. This option is mainly for debugging purposes.

FILES

/var/lib/nfs/sm/state /var/lib/nfs/sm/* /var/lib/nfs/sm.bak/*

SEE ALSO

rpc nfsd(8)

AUTHORS

Jeff Uphoff <juphoff@transmeta.com> Olaf Kirch <okir@monad.swb.de> H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.org>