SUMMARY: Disksuite 4.2.1 and rpc daemons?

See original ? below.

rpc.metad and rpc.metamhd are for remote metaset management and for the 
GUI.  Since I don't use the gui and they are local disksets, I have
removed them daemons without interuption.

Many thanks for the replies from:

Dan Astoorian
Steve Beuttel
Christopher Ciborowski
Trevor Paquette
Mika Tuupola
Kevin Buterbaugh
Jon Andrews

# Daryl


> fellow sunmanagers,
> 
> can anyone confirm or deny whether I need the rpc.metad and rpc.metamhd
> services running if I'm not using the GUI for Disksuite 4.2.1?  I've
> always thought of running rpc daemons as insecure.  in short, what would
> break if I removed these procs?
> 
> # rpc.metad
> 100229/1        tli     rpc/tcp         wait    root
> /usr/sbin/rpc.metad     rpc.metad
> # rpc.metamhd
> 100230/1        tli     rpc/tcp         wait    root
> /usr/sbin/rpc.metamhd   rpc.metamhd
> 
> # Daryl
> 
>