The
rpc.statd
utility
is a daemon which co-operates with
rpc.statd
daemons on other hosts to provide
a status monitoring service.
The daemon accepts requests from
programs running on the local host (typically,
rpc.lockd(8),
the NFS file locking daemon) to monitor the status of specified
hosts.
If a monitored host crashes and restarts, the remote daemon will
notify the local daemon, which in turn will notify the local program(s)
which requested the monitoring service.
Conversely, if this host crashes
and re-starts, when the
rpc.statd
re-starts, it will notify all of the hosts which were being monitored
at the time of the crash.
The following option is available:
|
| -d
|
| |
Cause debugging information to be written to syslog, recording
all RPC transactions to the daemon.
These messages are logged with level
LOG_DEBUG and facility LOG_DAEMON.
Error conditions are logged irrespective
of this option, using level LOG_ERR.
|
| -F
|
| |
Run
rpc.statd
in the foreground, rather than going into daemon mode.
This is useful if some other process uses
fork(2)
and
exec(3)
to run
rpc.statd,
and wants to monitor when and how it exits.
|
| -h bindip
|
| |
Specify specific IP addresses to bind to.
This option may be specified multiple times.
If no
-h
option is specified,
rpc.statd
will bind to
INADDR_ANY.
Note that when specifying IP addresses with
-h,
rpc.statd
will automatically add
127.0.0.1
and if IPv6 is enabled,
::1
to the list.
|
| -p
|
| |
The
-p
option allow to force the daemon to bind to the specified
port,
for both AF_INET and AF_INET6 address families.
|
|
The
rpc.statd
utility must NOT be invoked by
inetd(8)
because the protocol assumes that the daemon will run from system start time.
Instead, it should be run from
rc(8)
after the network has been started.
