topic Re: rstatd daemon in Operating System - HP-UX

rstatd daemon

masood bt — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:18:42 GMT

how do I stop rstatd in 11.31 hp unix server

How do I start rstatd daemon in 11.31 hp unix server

thanks

Re: rstatd daemon

Duncan Edmonstone — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 12:00:26 GMT

it's controlled by inetd - there's probably a commented out line in /etc/inetd.conf that looks something like this:

#rpc xti datagram_v wait root /usr/lib/netsvc/rstat/rpc.rstatd 100001 2-4 rpc.rstatd

To start rstatd (or at least ensure that inetd will start rstatd in response to a request from rup ), uncomment the line and run "inetd -c". TO stop rstatd, comment the line out and run "inetd -c"

HTH

Duncan

Re: rstatd daemon

Johnson Punniyalingam — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:53:41 GMT

>>how do I stop rstatd in 11.31 hp unix server

How do I start rstatd daemon in 11.31 hp unix server<<<

You cannot do that, no such thing stop/start for "rstatd" controlled by inetd

inetd -c

Re: rstatd daemon

Kapil Jha — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:02:10 GMT

grep rstat /etc/inetd.conf

you would see that this is controlled by inetd so just refresh it by

inetd -c

Check it should not be commented out.

BR,
Kapil+

Re: rstatd daemon

masood bt — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:04:53 GMT

/etc/inetd.conf has all commented out entries

i did inetd -c

sbin/init.d # ps -ef | grep -i rstat
root 26686 10298 1 11:49:02 console 0:00 grep -i rstat
root 14982 1 0 11:19:50 console 0:00 /usr/lib/netsvc/rstat/rpc.rstatd
root 26658 1 0 11:48:59 console 0:00 /usr/lib/netsvc/rstat/rpc.rstatd stop
/sbin/init.d #

Re: rstatd daemon

masood bt — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:13:44 GMT

/sbin/init.d # grep rstat /etc/inetd.conf
#rpc dgram udp wait root /usr/lib/netsvc/rstat/rpc.rstatd 100001 2-4 rpc.rstatd
/sbin/init.d #

to stop rstat
i should comment the above line and do

#inetd -c

to start rstat
i should un comment the above line and do

#inetd -c

Is this correct?

Re: rstatd daemon

masood bt — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:33:32 GMT

In this server I have been asked to stop the rstat

in inetd.conf this entry is already commented.

Does that mean somebody at some point of time started it by other means?

How do I know if this rstat daemon is running or stopped?

thank you

Re: rstatd daemon

Robert Salter — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:42:58 GMT

Do a "man rstatd" to get some info on it.

Re: rstatd daemon

Matti_Kurkela — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:53:26 GMT

Note that these two processes have "console" as their TTY:

root 14982 1 0 11:19:50 console 0:00 /usr/lib/netsvc/rstat/rpc.rstatd
root 26658 1 0 11:48:59 console 0:00 /usr/lib/netsvc/rstat/rpc.rstatd stop

Normally rstat daemon is started from inetd, and should have no TTY at all, which would be indicated by "?" in place of "console".
These two processes look like they are started manually by root on the console.

So these two processes are probably results of previous wrong attempts to stop rstatd. Just kill the processes:

kill 14982
kill 26658

MK

Re: rstatd daemon

masood bt — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:00:26 GMT

# grep -i rstat /etc/inetd.conf
#rpc dgram udp wait root /usr/lib/netsvc/rstat/rpc.rstatd 100001 2-4 rpc.rstatd
#

# ps -ef | grep -i rstat
root 27908 15771 1 13:52:19 console 0:00 grep -i rstat
#

By seeing the above output, I conclude that rstat daemon is not running.
Please confirm
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Also....
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In one of the other servers, where I have:

# grep -i rstat /etc/inetd.conf
#rpc dgram udp wait root /usr/lib/netsvc/rstat/rpc.rstatd 100001 2-4 rpc.rstatd
#

to start rstatd I didnt uncommented the line

I simply executed :

# /usr/lib/netsvc/rstat/rpc.rstatd
#

Then I have this
# ps -ef | grep -i rstat
root 23868 2557 0 12:42:27 console 0:00 grep -i rstat
root 23807 1 0 12:42:24 console 0:00 /usr/lib/netsvc/rstat/rpc.rstatd
#

So can i say now that rstat is running..

if i do inetd -c then it will stop, because it is actually commented...

please confirm

thank you

Re: rstatd daemon

masood bt — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:25:51 GMT

my observation is:

in one the server, where i wanted to start rstat... i un-commented in inetd.conf and did
#inetd -c

still i couldnt see rstatd running...
(i checked it by ps -ef | grep -i rstat)

so i executed

#/usr/lib/netsvc/rstat/rpc.rstatd

(started /usr/lib/netsvc/rstat/rpc.rstatd manually)

now...just to check if i can stop .,..

i commented out the line in inetd.conf and did
#inetd -c

still rstat is running....do i need to kill it ii think to stop it...

please add your thoughts...thank you

to stop..i did
# ps -ef | grep -i rstat
root 26831 1 0 12:46:02 ? 0:00 /usr/lib/netsvc/rstat/rpc.rstatd
root 1001 26965 0 14:17:21 console 0:00 grep -i rstat
#

# grep rstat /etc/inetd.conf
rpc dgram udp wait root /usr/lib/netsvc/rstat/rpc.rstatd 100001 2-4 rpc.rstatd
#

Now i commented this line
then did
#/usr/sbin/inetd -c
#
# ps -ef | grep -i rstat
root 1657 26965 0 14:19:01 console 0:00 grep -i rstat
root 26831 1 0 12:46:02 ? 0:00 /usr/lib/netsvc/rstat/rpc.rstatd
#

still it is running
...
may be i need to do
#kill 26831