Understand ipcs command

[Raman, Pattabhi]

Hello Gurus, 

 

This output is on RHAS 5.1 and the kernel version is 2.6.18-53.1.6.el5. 

I need to know the meaning of the Status column and what (dest) means in
the below output.

 

 

#ipcs

------ Shared Memory Segments --------
key        shmid      owner      perms      bytes      nattch     status
0x00000000 458752     gdm       600        393216     2          dest
<<<<<
0xa6d143fc 524289     oracle    660        2149580800 22
0x00000000 557058     root      600        196608     2          dest
<<<<<
0x00000000 589827     root      600        196608     2          dest
<<<<<
0x00000000 622596     root      600        196608     2          dest
<<<<<
0x00000000 655365     root      600        196608     2          dest
<<<<<
0x00000000 688134     root      600        196608     2          dest
<<<<<
0x00000000 720903     root      600        196608     2          dest
<<<<<
0x00000000 753672     root      600        196608     2          dest
<<<<<
0x00000000 819210     root      600        196608     2          dest
<<<<<
0x5e069a14 917515     root      600        512        1

------ Semaphore Arrays --------
key        semid      owner      perms      nsems
0x71069a02 0          root      666        1
0xf01656e0 131073     oracle    660        154
0x550a01de 163842     root      666        1

------ Message Queues --------
key        msqid      owner      perms      used-bytes   messages

 

Regards,
Pattabhi Raman