The current script uses fd 200, doesn't work for every possible shell as reported[1] in Debian bug #848277 We are including a patch for it in the 1.3.4-2 package, it would be good to incorporate this patch upstream too. Regards, Daniel 1. https://bugs.debian.org/848277
diff --git a/utils/statd/start-statd b/utils/statd/start-statd index 2fd6039..82715b4 100755 --- a/utils/statd/start-statd +++ b/utils/statd/start-statd @@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ PATH="/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin" # Use flock to serialize the running of this script -exec 200> /var/run/rpc.statd.lock -flock -e 200 +exec 9> /var/run/rpc.statd.lock +flock -e 9 if [ -s /var/run/rpc.statd.pid ] && [ 1`cat /var/run/rpc.statd.pid` -gt 1 ] &&