4 .\" Copyright (C) 1999 Olaf Kirch <okir@monad.swb.de>
5 .\" Modified by Jeffrey A. Uphoff, 1999.
6 .TH rpc.statd 8 "11 June 1999"
8 rpc.statd \- NSM status monitor
10 .B "/usr/sbin/rpc.statd [-F]
14 server implements the NSM (Network Status Monitor) RPC protocol.
15 This service is somewhat misnomed, since it doesn't actually provide
16 active monitoring as one might suspect; instead, NSM implements a
17 reboot notification service. It is used by the NFS file locking service,
19 to implement lock recovery when the NFS server machine crashes and
22 For each NFS client or server machine to be monitored,
26 When starting, it iterates through these files and notifies the
35 forks and puts itself in the background when started. The
37 argument tells it to remain in the foreground. This option is
38 mainly for debugging purposes.
40 .BR /var/lib/nfs/sm/state
44 .BR /var/lib/nfs/sm.bak/*
49 Jeff Uphoff <juphoff@transmeta.com>
51 Olaf Kirch <okir@monad.swb.de>