solaris 10 statd death

statd problems galore in /var/adm/messages:

Nov 11 06:06:66 localhost statd[262]: [ID 766906 daemon.warning] statd: cannot talk to statd at nastynfsserver, RPC: Timed out(5)

# ps -eaf | fgrep statd 
  daemon 16000 17000   0 13:13:13 ?           0:00 /usr/lib/nfs/statd
    root 16000 17500   0 14:14:14 pts/13      0:00 fgrep statd

# svcs -a | grep "nfs/status"
online          13:13:13 svc:/network/nfs/status:default

# svcadm -v disable nfs/status
svc:/network/nfs/status:default disabled.

# ls /var/statmon/sm.bak
nastynfsserver

# rm /var/statmon/sm.bak/nastynfsserver

# svcadm -v enable nfs/status
svc:/network/nfs/status:default enabled.

NB:
if fgrep is not your friend, grep'll do:

ps -ef |grep -v grep |grep statd