/etc/rc.log filling up

[Philip Dunn_1]

Hi everyone,
I have an annoying problem in that my rc.log file keeps filling up despite the server being up and running.

Every minute or so something is writing the following...

at com.hp.xpsl.xml.Utilities.parseInputStream(Utilities.java:158)
at com.hp.xpsl.xml.Utilities.sendToServer(Utilities.java:206)
at com.hp.xpsl.xml.SerializingMethods.receiveViaXML(SerializingMethods.java:64)
at com.hp.xpsl.hostagent.HostAgent.getHostConfig(HostAgent.java:616)
at com.hp.xpsl.hostagent.HostAgent.run(HostAgent.java:206)
at com.hp.xpsl.hostagent.HostAgent.main(HostAgent.java:130)

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks in advance

Phil

[RAC_1 · Accepted solution]

Poor coding. Why a program/apps should write to rc.log except startup scripts? Check what program/apps is doing that.

fuser -u /etc/rc.clog
lsof /etc/rc.log

[Pete Randall]

Perhaps you have an "at" job that re-schedules itself every minute and (mistakenly) writes to /etc/rc.log? Do an "at -l" and see what's out there.


Pete

[Bill Hassell]

Check your startup scripts in /sbin/init.d:

ll -t /sbin/init.d

Check the scripts listed at the top of this list as they have been recently changed. Look for custom scripts that are starting Java programs. It would appear that one of these scripts is not exiting. Processes that are launched in startup scripts must be placed in the background or the program(s) turn into daemon processes. Apparently a Java process is still running (and running in a debug/trace mode).

Normally, /etc/rc.log is only used during during startup and shutdown although there is nothing to prevent some Java coder (with root privileges) from writing directly to this file.

[Philip Dunn_1]

Thanks for all your replys,
Looks like its the xppa agent going screwy.
I'll try restarting it and see what happens!
Very helpful and fast as always.

Phil