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

rbootd daemon

Camel_1 — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 10:34:29 GMT

Hi there,

I am wondering what is the purpose of rbootd daemon? Our security team is asking to turn of this daemon, is there any impact on HPUX11i?

Thanks,

Simon

Re: rbootd daemon

Pete Randall — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 10:38:53 GMT

Simon,

Take a look at the man page for rbootd. It is highly unlikely that this is used anymore. "Ancient" workstation used it to boot via the RMP protocol. Modern workstations use the bootp protocol and communicate with bootpd.

Pete

Re: rbootd daemon

Arunvijai_4 — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 11:06:38 GMT

Hi Simon,

Remote Boot Daemon

The rbootd daemon is used for booting some HP workstations over the network (such as the 9000/300 and 9000/400 series). It can also boot PA RISC workstations. It handles the first stage of the boot sequence and can be used to start booting Linux, NetBSD or HPUX.

You can find more information at,

http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-90692/rbootd.1M.html

-Arun

Re: rbootd daemon

Pete Randall — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 11:12:19 GMT

Literal quote from the man page:

"Later s700 workstations (starting with the s712) use the industry standard BOOTP protocol and communicate with bootpd(1M). Future s700 workstations will use the BOOTP protocol."

Pete

Re: rbootd daemon

Camel_1 — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 11:13:28 GMT

thanks guys.