INIT: command is respawning too rapidly

[Leonard G]

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.

[RAC_1]

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.

[Peter Godron]

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

[Arunvijai_4 · Accepted solution]

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

[Kent Ostby]

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.