Proposal: Starting statd on demand

Proposal: Starting statd on demand

[Chip Salzenberg]

It's a well-known security principle that services should not be running
when they are not needed.

I would like to make statd follow that principle.

Does anyone have a suggestion on how?  I don't want to reinvent an
already-proposed wheel.
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"I wanted to play hopscotch with the impenetrable mystery of existence,
    but he stepped in a wormhole and had to go in early."  // MST3K


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Re: Proposal: Starting statd on demand

[Olaf Kirch]

On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 02:03:52PM -0400, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
> It's a well-known security principle that services should not be running
> when they are not needed.
> 
> I would like to make statd follow that principle.
> 
> Does anyone have a suggestion on how?  I don't want to reinvent an
> already-proposed wheel.

You may want to try my kernel statd patch. It implements a minimal
statd that just supports NULL and SM_NOTIFY in kernel, as an additional
RPC program registered on the same port as lockd.

Note that you still need to have some user land support for statd
which sends out the SM_NOTIFY calls on reboot.

Olaf
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