Already running dispatcher process at diagtx start in rc.log

[Randolph Knippel]

Rebooted our Superdome 2 running HP-UX 11.31 with the September 2012 Quality Pack installed. Started receiving emails to root from the system-defined cron process-

5,20,35,50   *    *    *    *    /opt/psb/bin/restart_logserv.sh

which said-

Already running dispatcher process with pid 2092

Checked pid 2092, and it is cron. Don't understand what this has to do with the software in /opt/psb.

Checked /etc/rc.log from reboot, and found the same error listed after 'Start diagtx daemon' which happens to start right after cron. So did something get overlaid during this start-up? The system seems to be confused.

I killed the cron pid, started diagtx daemon manually, and restarted cron. That seems to have resolved the situation, but still would like to know what happened.

Thanks,

Randy

[Steven E. Protter]

Assuming the message is accurate, I would look at the script itself. I'm guessing its methodology to kill the process is failing.

Or: cron ran and the script (still probably the source of the issue) decided the diagx process was not running.

SEP