.\" statd(8)
.\"
.\" Copyright (C) 1999 Olaf Kirch <okir@monad.swb.de>
-.\" Modified by Jeffrey A. Uphoff, 1999, 2002.
+.\" Modified by Jeffrey A. Uphoff, 1999, 2002, 2005.
.\" Modified by Lon Hohberger, 2000.
.\" Modified by Paul Clements, 2004.
.TH rpc.statd 8 "31 Aug 2004"
.SH NAME
rpc.statd \- NSM status monitor
.SH SYNOPSIS
-.B "/sbin/rpc.statd [-F] [-d] [-?] [-n " name "] [-o " port "] [-p " port "] [-H " prog "] [-V]"
+.B "rpc.statd [-FNL] [-d] [-?] [-n " name "] [-o " port "] [-p " port "] [-H " prog "] [-V]"
.SH DESCRIPTION
The
.B rpc.statd
server implements the NSM (Network Status Monitor) RPC protocol.
-This service is somewhat misnomed, since it doesn't actually provide
+This service is somewhat misnamed, 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,
.BR rpc.lockd ,
.B rpc.statd
creates a file in
.BR /var/lib/nfs/sm .
-When starting, it iterates through these files and notifies the
+When starting, it normally runs
+.B sm-notify
+to iterate through these files and notify the
peer
.B rpc.statd
on those machines.
statd program will check its state directory, send notifications to any
monitored nodes, and exit once the notifications have been sent. This mode is
used to enable Highly Available NFS implementations (i.e. HA-NFS).
+This mode is deprecated \-
+.B sm-notify
+should be used directly instead.
+.TP
+.BR -L , " --no-notify
+Inhibits the running of
+.BR sm-notify .
+If
+.B sm-notify
+is run by some other script at boot time, there is no need for
+.B statd
+to start sm-notify itself. This can be appropriate if starting of
+statd needs to be delayed until it is actually need. In such cases
+.B sm-notify
+should still be run at boot time.
.TP
.BI "\-H, " "" " \-\-ha-callout " prog
Specify a high availability callout program, which will receive callouts
.BR portmap(8)
.SH AUTHORS
.br
-Jeff Uphoff <juphoff@nrao.edu>
+Jeff Uphoff <juphoff@users.sourceforge.net>
.br
Olaf Kirch <okir@monad.swb.de>
.br