I think I have done all the required things to get rstat to start on
my Solaris 8 box:

1. added "rstatd/2-4      tli   rpc/datagram_v wait root /usr/lib/
netsvc/rstat/rpc.rstatd rpc.rstatd" to inetd.conf"
2. kill -HUP <inetd pid>

When I do ps -ef | grep rstat, no process is running. Is there some
entry needing to be made in /etc/services? Is it possible some
security measure has been instituted to prevent rstatd from running?

Jim Nathan wrote:
> I think I have done all the required things to get rstat to start on
> my Solaris 8 box:
> 
> 1. added "rstatd/2-4      tli   rpc/datagram_v wait root /usr/lib/
> netsvc/rstat/rpc.rstatd rpc.rstatd" to inetd.conf"
> 2. kill -HUP <inetd pid>
> 
> When I do ps -ef | grep rstat, no process is running. Is there some
> entry needing to be made in /etc/services? Is it possible some
> security measure has been instituted to prevent rstatd from running?

You do not "start" any inetd services.  They will be started when you 
connect to them.  See "man inetd"

In article <gtc95r$r0q$1@news.mie>,
	Oscar del Rio <delrio@mie.utoronto.ca> writes:
> Jim Nathan wrote:
>> I think I have done all the required things to get rstat to start on
>> my Solaris 8 box:
>> 
>> 1. added "rstatd/2-4      tli   rpc/datagram_v wait root /usr/lib/
>> netsvc/rstat/rpc.rstatd rpc.rstatd" to inetd.conf"
>> 2. kill -HUP <inetd pid>
>> 
>> When I do ps -ef | grep rstat, no process is running. Is there some
>> entry needing to be made in /etc/services? Is it possible some
>> security measure has been instituted to prevent rstatd from running?
> 
> You do not "start" any inetd services.  They will be started when you 
> connect to them.  See "man inetd"

In Solaris 8, /usr/openwin/bin/perfmeter is an rstatd client,
so see if that can connect to the system and display performance
stats. If it can't connect, it just displays gravestones.

Talking of which, anyone know of any opensource rstatd clients?
I was still using perfmeter until snv108. In snv109, the Xserver
font support for it broke.

-- 
Andrew Gabriel
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Andrew Gabriel wrote:

> Talking of which, anyone know of any opensource rstatd clients?
> I was still using perfmeter until snv108. In snv109, the Xserver
> font support for it broke.
> 

found this, haven't tried it
http://www.koeniglich.de/perf.html

Andrew Gabriel wrote:
>
> Talking of which, anyone know of any opensource rstatd clients?
> I was still using perfmeter until snv108. In snv109, the Xserver
> font support for it broke.

http://jperfmeter.sourceforge.net/
java based - you can run it off the website or download it

In article <gtcve6$3jk$1@news.mie>,
	Oscar del Rio <delrio@mie.utoronto.ca> writes:
> Andrew Gabriel wrote:
>>
>> Talking of which, anyone know of any opensource rstatd clients?
>> I was still using perfmeter until snv108. In snv109, the Xserver
>> font support for it broke.
> 
> http://jperfmeter.sourceforge.net/
> java based - you can run it off the website or download it

That's rather good. It's 100 times the working set size of
perfmeter (i.e. uses more memory than systems I used to
use perfmeter had in total), but I guess that's what one
comes to expect nowadays. At least it doesn't have to run
on the system you're monitoring, which is what I like about
perfmeter too.

I looked at the other one, but that still depends on XView
library, so I suspect it will also not work after snv_108
for the same reason perfmeter doesn't, and building XView
apps nowadays requires fiddling around to get headers or
find an old system.

-- 
Andrew Gabriel
[email address is not usable -- followup in the newsgroup]