statd(1Mnfs)

statd -- network status monitor

Synopsis

/usr/lib/nfs/statd

Description

The statd command starts a status monitor daemon. It interacts with lockd(1Mnfs) to provide the crash and recovery functions for the locking services on NFS^®.

Files

/etc/sm
/etc/sm.bak
/etc/state

Usage

The statd daemon is automatically invoked in run level 3.

NOTE: The crash of a site is only detected upon its recovery.

When NFS is restarted, statd will display notices on the system console if any machine which was involved in NFS file and record locking before the restart, is currently down. These messages can be avoided by removing all files from the /etc/sm and /etc/sm.bak directories before restarting NFS. A typical message is as follows:

   rpc.statd: cannot talk to statd at <host>

Only a privileged user can execute this command.

References

lockd(1Mnfs), nfsping(1nfs)