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@@ -185,18 +185,16 @@ restarts without the
option.
.TP
.BI "\-n, " "" "\-\-name " ipaddr " | " hostname
-Specifies the bind address used for RPC listener sockets.
+This string is only used by the
+.B sm-notify
+command as the source address from which to send reboot notification requests.
+.IP
The
.I ipaddr
form can be expressed as either an IPv4 or an IPv6 presentation address.
If this option is not specified,
.B rpc.statd
uses a wildcard address as the transport bind address.
-.IP
-This string is also passed to the
-.B sm-notify
-command to be used as the source address from which
-to send reboot notification requests.
See
.BR sm-notify (8)
for details.
@@ -259,7 +257,15 @@ by default.
After starting,
.B rpc.statd
attempts to set its effective UID and GID to the owner
-and group of this directory.
+and group of the subdirectory
+.B sm
+of this directory. After changing the effective ids,
+.B rpc.statd
+only needs to access files in
+.B sm
+and
+.B sm.bak
+within the state-directory-path.
.TP
.BR -v ", " -V ", " --version
Causes