Many thanks to Rick Reineman for supplying me with the correct answer.

The original post follows his answer:

If you check the manpage for rpc.ttdbserverd you will see mention

about a TT_DB directory, that is at every filesystem mountpoint.

There is an option to rpc.ttdbserverd to clean up this database. It

usually doesn't work, so just delete the database directory. Solaris

will create a new one. Try the following:

        find / -name TT_DB -exec rm -r {} \;

Rick

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Rick Reineman

Lasers CAD&UNIX Systems Management

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

reineman1@llnl.gov

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I'm faced with a strange problem. I have two Sparc5s, each running

Solaris 2.5 with the recommended patches. One runs CDE 1.0.2 and the

other (mine) runs CDE 1.0.1.

Mine works with no problems. The other one, with the newer CDE, gets

these strange messages in /var/adm/messages file:

Dec 17 10:37:49 mercury inetd[136]: /usr/dt/bin/rpc.ttdbserverd: Child

Status Changed

Dec 17 10:37:53 mercury last message repeated 22 times

Dec 17 10:37:54 mercury inetd[136]: /usr/dt/bin/rpc.ttdbserverd: Child

Status Changed

Dec 17 10:44:34 mercury last message repeated 2131 times

Dec 17 10:44:34 mercury inetd[136]: /usr/dt/bin/rpc.ttdbserverd: Child

Status Changed

Dec 17 10:51:14 mercury last message repeated 2125 times

Dec 17 10:51:15 mercury inetd[136]: /usr/dt/bin/rpc.ttdbserverd: Child

Status Changed

Dec 17 10:57:55 mercury last message repeated 1928 times

Dec 17 10:57:56 mercury inetd[136]: /usr/dt/bin/rpc.ttdbserverd: Child

Status Changed

Dec 17 10:58:35 mercury last message repeated 168 times

When I check my machine, I can see a rpc.ttdbserverd process running. I

can't see it on the other machine though. The user is, as far as I know,

unaware of any problems.

Does anyone have any clue about what's causing this?

I will summarize.

Erwin Fritz

UNIX/NT/LAN Guy

Gilbert Laustsen Jung Associates Ltd.

http://www.glja.com