What is System Inventory Daemon?

[Veron_1]

Hi,

currently my server is stoped at "Start System Inventory Daemon" checking. What is it and pls help to avoid this problem then.

Appreciate all your help,
Veron

[John Payne_2]

Veron,

Hit \ (control-backslash) to attempt to break out of it. You may have to do a time or two to get it to take the command, if it is listening for the interrupt.

When the system comes up, look at /etc/rc.log In that file is the messages from the startup. The line beneatht he System Inventory Daemon will list what script was being run. From there you can look at it and see what it is trying to do.

Hope it helps.

John

[Veron_1]

Hi,

ctr-\ cannot help. it cannot interupt the this checking. Are there anyway to stop this checking in future?

Thanks for your help,
Veron

[John Payne_2]

If you can log into the machine at this point, log in and see what is is being loaded. (tail /etc/rc.log to see what is loading.) If you can not log into the machine when it is at this state, boot to single user mode or init 1 and do the following.

Then go to /sbin/init.d and temporarily rename that file. On the next reboot, the system will give an error that the file does not exist and move on.

If you decide you really want to run the script on startup (after fixing it so it exits properly or whatever) you just have to name it back to the origional. If you want to permanently remove it, (I don't know what it is or what it does, really, without looking at it.) remove the file in /sbin/init.d and then go to /sbin/rc2.d or /sbin/rc3.d and remove the link to that file. (I am not sure what run level you are trying to run this at.)

Hope it helps
John

[Bill Hassell]

To find what is happening during startup, read the file: /etc/rc.log and you'll see the Inventory message along with the name of the startup script. You can look at the script in /sbin/init.d (you can even search for it with: grep -i inventory /sbin/init.d/*). However, removing or renaming the /sbin/init.d script is not recommended. Instead, start/stop scripts are enabled/configured in /etc/rc.config.d. The init.d script may refer to the script's name, or you can search for it with: grep -i inventory /etc/rc.config.d/* Just disable the daemon startup with the configure script.

[Gordon Morrison]

if ctrl \ doesn't work, try ctrl | (control+pipe symbol)