Re: [Q] what is atmsvcd on AIX?

From: Bob Booth - CITES (booth@UIUC.EDU)
Date: Sat Mar 06 2004 - 18:02:32 EST


It is indeed an ATM SVC daemon. For some reason it comes up by default whether
you have ATM installed or not. You can safely shut it down and remove it
without bothering your existing interfaces.

bob

On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 10:10:37PM +0000, bbb bb wrote:
> We have AIX 4.3.3 running on RS/6000. I check processes (ps -ef) and found
> there have following items on it:
>
> root 16526 1 0 Mar 05 - 0:00 /usr/sbin/atmsvcd -i 0
> root 16782 16526 0 Mar 05 - 0:00 /usr/sbin/atmsvcd -i 0
>
> also in inittab file:
> atmsvcd:2:once:/usr/sbin/atmsvcd >/dev/console 2>&1
>
> does any one know what is atmsvcd? Is it ATM interface? We used to have
> ATM interface, but we change to Gigabit Ethernet. Can I remove the entry on
> inittab file?
>
> Thanks.
>
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