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Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 13:32:38 -0700
From: Dmitry Kohmanyuk <dk@genesyslab.com>
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Subject: portmapper dying...
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has anybode seen this?

from time to time, portmapper dies with syslog messages:

Jun 25 12:34:37 maya portmap[7929]: svc_run: - select failed: No child processes
Jun 25 12:34:37 maya /kernel: pid 7929 (portmap), uid 1: exited on signal 6
Jun 25 12:34:37 maya portmap[7929]: svc_run returned unexpectedly

this is on 2.2-something system.