topic Re: INIT: command is respawning too rapidly in Operating System - HP-UX

INIT: command is respawning too rapidly

Leonard G — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 05:01:01 GMT

Hi,

I have a K class server. when i work on the console of the server, it keeps throwing the following message very frequently,

INIT:command is respawning too rapidly
will try again in 5 minutes
ckeck for possible errors
id:samd "/usr/sam/lbin/samd #system management daemon"

what shall i do to stop this message?

regards,
Leo.

Re: INIT: command is respawning too rapidly

RAC_1 — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 05:06:49 GMT

Login and edit /etc/inittab file.
Put off instead of spawn on line that contains samd. Do init q now. It will stop these messages.

Re: INIT: command is respawning too rapidly

Peter Godron — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 05:10:01 GMT

Leo,
vi /etc/inittab file
samd:23456:respawn:/usr/sam/lbin/samd # system mgmt daemon

and replace respawn with off:

samd:23456:off:/usr/sam/lbin/samd # system mgmt daemon

then do : init q

Re: INIT: command is respawning too rapidly

Arunvijai_4 — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 05:10:13 GMT

Hi Leo

You need to edit /etc/inittab

samd:123:respawn:/usr/sam/lbin/samd # system mgmt daemon

and replace respawn with off on above line.

samd:123:off:/usr/sam/lbin/samd # system mgmt daemon

and init q to proceed further.

-Arun

Re: INIT: command is respawning too rapidly

Kent Ostby — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 06:39:17 GMT

Leo --

This message occurs because the particular command is not able to start correctly.

As others have mentioned, you can turn off the process via a modification to inittab.

If you are interested in finding out what is causing the problem, I would check the status of the filesystems and make sure they all mount (i.e. mount -a ).

Do:

ll /usr/sam/lbin
and
ll -d /usr/sam/lbin

and compare permissions to those on one of your systems that doesn't have the error and modify if needed.

Check your patch level for SAM and possibly apply the latest SAM patch which should check your file links as well.