X-Git-Url: https://git.decadent.org.uk/gitweb/?p=nfs-utils.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=utils%2Fstatd%2Fstatd.man;h=f35b6c9c015d8a99233e1144d9a2d80b21372970;hp=8327924b4a4d83fb346ba73d658d1e43822f17fc;hb=048168177afa8ec6461e9b5ad1bbca9cc305f66a;hpb=f7761f288c71e5343c5ce5b0349fb337a5213b54 diff --git a/utils/statd/statd.man b/utils/statd/statd.man index 8327924..f35b6c9 100644 --- a/utils/statd/statd.man +++ b/utils/statd/statd.man @@ -2,12 +2,13 @@ .\" statd(8) .\" .\" Copyright (C) 1999 Olaf Kirch -.\" Modified by Jeffrey A. Uphoff, 1999. -.TH rpc.statd 8 "20 Aug 2000" +.\" Modified by Jeffrey A. Uphoff, 1999, 2002. +.\" Modified by Lon Hohberger, 2000. +.TH rpc.statd 8 "16 Sep 2002" .SH NAME rpc.statd \- NSM status monitor .SH SYNOPSIS -.B "/usr/sbin/rpc.statd [-F] [-d] [-?] [-V] +.B "/sbin/rpc.statd [-F] [-d] [-?] [-n " name "] [-o " port "] [-p " port "] [-V]" .SH DESCRIPTION The .B rpc.statd @@ -51,6 +52,55 @@ be used in conjunction with the .B -F parameter. .TP +.BI "\-n," "" " \-\-name " name +specify a name for +.B rpc.statd +to use as the local hostname. By default, +.BR rpc.statd +will call +.BR gethostname (2) +to get the local hostname. Specifying +a local hostname may be useful for machines with more than one +interfaces. +.TP +.BI "\-o," "" " \-\-outgoing\-port " port +specify a port for +.B rpc.statd +to send outgoing status requests from. By default, +.BR rpc.statd +will ask +.BR portmap (8) +to assign it a port number. As of this writing, there is not +a standard port number that +.BR portmap +always or usually assigns. Specifying +a port may be useful when implementing a firewall. +.TP +.BI "\-p," "" " \-\-port " port +specify a port for +.B rpc.statd +to listen on. By default, +.BR rpc.statd +will ask +.BR portmap (8) +to assign it a port number. As of this writing, there is not +a standard port number that +.BR portmap +always or usually assigns. Specifying +a port may be useful when implementing a firewall. +.TP +.BI "\-P," "" " \-\-state\-directory\-path " directory +specify a directory in which to place statd state information. +If this option is not specified the default of +.BR /var/lib/nfs +is used. +.TP +.B -N +Causes statd to run in the notify-only mode. When started in this mode, the +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). +.TP .B -? Causes .B rpc.statd @@ -77,29 +127,29 @@ statd: .bar.com You have to use the daemon name .B statd -for the daemon name (even if the binary has a different name). For the -client names you can only use the keyword ALL or IP addresses (NOT -host or domain names). +for the daemon name (even if the binary has a different name). For further information please have a look at the -.BR tcpd (8), -.BR hosts_allow (5) +.BR tcpd (8) and .BR hosts_access (5) manual pages. .SH FILES -.BR /var/lib/nfs/sm/state +.BR /var/lib/nfs/state .br .BR /var/lib/nfs/sm/* .br .BR /var/lib/nfs/sm.bak/* .SH SEE ALSO -.BR rpc.nfsd(8) +.BR rpc.nfsd(8), +.BR portmap(8) .SH AUTHORS .br -Jeff Uphoff +Jeff Uphoff .br Olaf Kirch .br H.J. Lu +.br +Lon Hohberger