rpc.rstatd daemon keeps dying on me...

[Rita C Workman]

Anyone got any thoughts. The daemon gets started (/usr/lib/netsvc/rstat/rpc.rstatd) just fine. But after a couple minutes...it dies.
Can't seem to nail down why or what is doing this.
Can restart manually, but it's gone again in a few.
Checked patches and found PHNE_38934 as a possible fix - but go figure, it's already on the box. So it doesn't look like a patch problem.

Any thoughts from the group?

Thanks,
Rita

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom Rita,

Lets check the patch status with swverify, there may be something wrong with it.

I'd look to what has changed lately on the box, bi-annual patch sets, crash, something that might cause the issue.

Any clues to the death in /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log

SEP

[Rita C Workman]

After checking a little more it seems rpc.rstatd noticed that this is a daemon that has to do with collecting stats on kernel.
So I am simply going to apply the suggestions again and possibly see if a reboot might clear up whatever is causing this problem.
Suggestions given:

Double check (again) inetd.conf file entry
Run inetd -c
Possibly stop/start NFS on client and/or server or both
Reboot server

Thanks,
Rita