How to stop a single service deamon when the system boots?

[Cai Nan]

Morning,
I use HP10.20,when system boots,It will hang at:Start software Distribution Deamon,is there some way to skip this and continue following serveice starting? I use CtrlC, but when the system start, command:SAM,NETSTAT,even shutdown will very very slow.
Could you tell me "Start Software Distribution Deamon" have some relationship with network configuration? And I believe the IP address,submask,gateway are all right.

Thanks!
--Frank

[Steven Sim Kok Leong · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Have you checked your /etc/hosts or DNS entry for your system? I suspect that the software distributor (SD) has difficulty connecting to your system. Once you logon, check /var/adm/sw/swagentd.log for errors.

Hope this helps. Regards.

Steven Sim Kok Leong

[Michael Tully]

Hi,

Any interrution to the system start-up scripts
can leave the system in an unknown state. This
is because some of the scripts in the same
run-level have not completed. The recommendation is to fix the problem before re-booting the system again.

The process actually starts the swagent daemon
and it does have a relationship with DNS. You
could try and resolve your DNS locally as
opposed to looking at another server which
could be down. Change the order in
/etc/nsswitch.conf so that the local hosts
file is used first.

HTH
-MIchael