rpc.ttdbser ??

[Peter Gillis]

Hi,
We're running ux 11.00 on D390 machine. Over the past few days have been doing quite a bit of disabling network services. Today have notices this process - rpc.ttdbser - running. It has been the highest cpu user all morning so far. Can anyone tell me what this process is - I have been unable to find much info at all on it. I know that it is a command
/usr/dt/bin/rpc.ttdbserver. man gives no info.

On our dev system this process is running at a pri of 154. The pri on D390 is 228. I do not know if to lower the priority or not because I cant find what else this process may effect.
Anyone help?
thanks Maria.

[S.K. Chan · Accepted solution]

The same answer I gave in one of the previous thread.
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The rpc.ttdbserver is the ToolTalk database server (used by the ToolTalk messaging system that performs filename mapping. It essentially replaces the BMS messaging system in VUE. ToolTalk is a SunSoft product for network data interchange. In 1992,several companies formed a consortium to develop what has become the Common Desktop Environment (CDE), which uses ToolTalk as a messaging system. Both Solaris 2.6 and HP-UX 10.20 support CDE; therefore, they also support the newer version of ToolTalk (1.1).

Since CDE on HP-UX 10.20 uses a form of socket communication, it does not REQUIRE that the ToolTalk daemon be running for proper functionality. However, it is not recommended that the rpc.ttdbserver daemon be disabled because some third party software may rely on it (especially if ported from a Sun OS).
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This doc tells you how to deal with it.
DocID=XRDKBRC00002768
http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000063212039

For our site, we disable it by commenting out the rpc.ttdbserver entry in /etc/inetd.conf and re-reading the file.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Maria:

You can disable this. See Alex Glennie's comments here:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xae8c402f24d5d61190050090279cd0f9,00.html

Regards!

...JRF...

[Paul Sperry]

rpc.ttdbserver is the ToolTalk database server

ToolTalk is a SunSoft product for network data interchange

you most likely don't have it istalled do a:

swlist | grep -i tt

if not I'd kill the process.

Also I believe there was a Vulnerability patch for that product.

[Peter Gillis]

Thanks for your help. Have read the links suggested and is amazing how much info is around. I have disabled the process and cpu back to normal now. Will be leaving the process disabled on each system here.

Thanks again.
Maria.