today's authconfig update triggered an SELinux warning

[Joe Smith]

SELinux is preventing /sbin/rpc.statd (rpcd_t) "search" to (sysctl_fs_t).

 From /var/log/messages:
...
Aug  1 09:42:56 duros yum: Updated: authconfig.i386 5.3.15-1.fc7
Aug  1 09:42:58 duros rpc.statd[2014]: Caught signal 15, un-registering 
and exiting.
Aug  1 09:42:59 duros rpc.statd[5279]: Version 1.1.0 Starting
Aug  1 09:43:02 duros sm-notify[5282]: sm-notify running as root. chown 
/var/lib/nfs/sm to choose different user
Aug  1 09:43:02 duros Backgrounding to notify hosts...
Aug  1 09:43:02 duros yum: Updated: nfs-utils.i386 1:1.1.0-1.fc7
Aug  1 09:43:03 duros yum: Updated: authconfig-gtk.i386 5.3.15-1.fc7
Aug  1 09:43:04 duros setroubleshoot:      SELinux is preventing 
/usr/sbin/sm-notify (rpcd_t) "search" to <Unknown> (sysctl_fs_t). 
For complete SELinux messages. run sealert -l 
498c64ce-3b7a-4009-be3c-ce4989e007b3
Aug  1 09:43:04 duros setroubleshoot:      SELinux is preventing 
/sbin/rpc.statd (rpcd_t) "search" to <Unknown> (sysctl_fs_t).      For 
complete SELinux messages. run sealert -l 
498c64ce-3b7a-4009-be3c-ce4989e007b3
...

* What does this message mean?

Usually I can make some sense of SELinux' inscrutable gibberish (I kid, 
I kid), but this one is new to me. My guess would be a directory access 
of some kind--to what?

* Why am I running rpc.statd?

I thought that was for NFS, which I'm not using, although I do have 
nfs-utils installed for some reason.

Rpm tells me that nothing else requires nfs-utils, is there any reason 
not to simply remove it? Authconfig appears to want rpc.statd running at 
least. Maybe I don't need authconfig either.

Any clues appreciated.

<Joe