Why rstatd fails to start in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5?

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Issue

  • After starting the service rstatd, the status is shown as stopped:
[root@dhcp223-56 ~]# service rstatd start
Starting rstat services:                                   [  OK  ]
[root@dhcp223-56 ~]# service rstatd status
rpc.rstatd is stopped
[root@dhcp223-56 ~]#
  • While trying to start rstatd, it shows following error in /var/log/messages:
rpc.rstatd[30694]: unable to register (RSTATPROG, RSTATVERS_TIME, udp).

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x
  • rusers-server

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