osf1 man page for state

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NAME
       sm, sm.bak, state - Status monitor directories and file structures

SYNOPSIS
       /etc/sm, /etc/sm.bak, /etc/state

DESCRIPTION
       The  directories /etc/sm and /etc/sm.bak are generated by the rpc.statd daemon.	Each entry in /etc/sm represents the name of the system to
       be monitored by the status monitor.  Upon its recovery, the status monitor moves all entries from the /etc/sm directory to the  /etc/sm.bak
       directory and notifies the corresponding statd of its recovery.

       The  /etc/state	file  is generated by the rpc.statd daemon to record its version number; that is, the number of times the rpc.statd daemon
       was invoked.  The version number is incremented each time the system crashes or recovers.  The system sends this  state	number	to  status
       monitors on remote systems when it notifies them of a crash or recovery.

RELATED INFORMATION
       Commands: rpc.statd(8), rpc.lockd(8) delim off

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