ON Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 01:23:58PM -0600, Jamie Seeman wrote: > I've been working on tightening my box down, and I was wondering what > rpc.statd is and does. I found it listening on port(s): > > COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME > rpc.statd 619 root 4u IPv4 890 UDP *:795 > rpc.statd 619 root 5u IPv4 901 UDP *:1024 > rpc.statd 619 root 6u IPv4 904 TCP *:1024 (LISTEN) > > I did a man on rpc, but didn't help much. > > Thanks in advance, Did you try "man statd"? It's part of NFS. If you don't use NFS, you can turn it off. -- Michael