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How to start rstatd Daemon on AIX 6.1

as I enable it from etc/inetd.conf

then I refreshed it by this command refresh -s inetd but stil is not Active !

can some one advice in this !

Does not active mean that you can query it or that you don't see any process running after you removed the remark and refreshed the subsystem? If you just don't see a process it will be because there is maybe no query issued at that moment.

so can you please help me in this . how to start it .

Can you give me an answer to my question please so I could decide what to suggest?

my answer in the below whole the scenario ...

this is waht I did ...

As root

1. Edit /etc/inetd.conf
Uncomment or add entry for rstatd
Eg
rstatd sunrpc_udp udp wait root /usr/sbin/rpc.rstatd rstatd 100001 1-3

2. Edit /etc/services
Uncomment or add entry for rstatd
Eg
rstatd 100001/udp

3. Refresh services
refresh -s inetd

4. Start rstatd
/usr/sbin/rpc.rstatd

but the services is not active ! is there any messing ? need to be done to bring up the service?

I guess you misunderstood.

Uncommenting a demon in inetd.conf and refreshing inetd does not automatically start the uncommented demon, in your case rstatd. If a request from some other tool to inetd comes for rstatd, rstatd will be launched.
You usually would not launch it manually from the command line. Either demons are launched via a superdemon like inetd or xinetd or they are launched permanent from command line, inittab etc. but usually not both at once.

For example if you uncomment ftpd in inetd.conf and do a ps -ef for ftp, you'll see nothing. If you connect with a ftp client from another box to the server where ftpd is activated in inetd.conf, it will be visible with ps, when it is actually used.

So you will need some other tool to query rstatd so that inetd launches it and gives you the wanted info from the kernel.

Hi, you can run this

Code:

rpcinfo -p| grep rst