rpc.ttdbserver

[David A. Corral]

I have inherited the Admin of this machine but I am not familiar with a process running called rpc.ttdbserver. We do not use "Remote Procedure Call" on this box so I don't know if commenting it out of the /etc/inetd.conf is what I need to do or if this will cause problems with something else such as predictive dialer.

[Alex Glennie]

you will be safe disabling it .... I've yet to find a concise definition of what this does ...suffice it to say on 99.9 % of people's boxes the answers not a lot.

It's part and parcel of the CDE window manager and comes with a man page ttdbserverd.

On some systems it has been seen to eat cpu, the workaround was always to disable it via inetd.conf

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi David:

If you are not running CDE or never plan to do so on your server, then you can simply (safely) comment-out the entry in '/etc/inetd.conf' and restart 'inetd':

# inetd -c

Regards!

...JRF...

[David A. Corral]

I was unaware that the CDE used this process. There is one person who uses XTERM but just for a telnet. I have given her a different telnet and turned off the service. Thanks, for the info.

[Andrew Cowan]

Hi David,

As of HP-UX 10.x the DCE Rpcd started being used. All DCE/RPC's (and NFS) are controlled from "/etc/rc.config.d", and the simplest way to disable them is to set their start variables to zero:

./Rpcd
START_RPCD=0
./nfsconf
NFS_CLIENT=0
NFS_SERVER=0
NUM_NFSD=0
NUM_NFSIOD=0
PCNFS_SERVER=0

If your not using NFS and or DCE then you probably don't need RPC. I should point out that running it is a big security leak and if required you should setup your firewall to drop UDP requests for it from outside.

[T G Manikandan]

If CDE is not used on the system then it can be put off.
comment the line containing rp.ttdbserver in the /etc/inetd.conf file and do a

#inetd -c

If this process is consuming more cpu then you can check for the -G option.

Thanks

[John Morris]

I know of several customers who run CDE with rpc.ttdbserverd disabled and have no ill effects. This daemon may be used by non-CDE applications which access Tooltalk. However, I have found only one use for it in the basic CDE components: global file locking in dtmail.

John Morris
HP GSE X/Graphics