[CentOS] INIT: Id "snmp" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

[David Halik]

I finally had a eureka moment this morning and figured out the issues. 
Our Centos 5 servers are all running on Sun x4100 hardware which has a 
service processor that runs a firmware Debian install. Since the console 
for the Centos 5 server is effectively the same console as the service 
processor, what we were really seeing was the service processor init 
complaining. Once I figured that out it was easy enough to confirm.

Thanks for your time.

David Halik wrote:
> Thanks for the reply. I've tried both "init q" and "init u" without any 
> luck, the message still appeared five minutes later. Init did post a 
> message that it was reloaded, so the command worked, yet the process is 
> still complaining about this "snmp" id.
>
> Here's my inittab. It's fairly standard and I don't think any custom 
> changes were made.
>
> #
> # inittab       This file describes how the INIT process should set up
> #               the system in a certain run-level.
> #
> # Author:       Miquel van Smoorenburg, <miquels at drinkel.nl.mugnet.org>
> #               Modified for RHS Linux by Marc Ewing and Donnie Barnes
> #
>
> # Default runlevel. The runlevels used by RHS are:
> #   0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
> #   1 - Single user mode
> #   2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have 
> networking)
> #   3 - Full multiuser mode
> #   4 - unused
> #   5 - X11
> #   6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
> #
> id:3:initdefault:
>
> # System initialization.
> si::sysinit:/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit
>
> l0:0:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 0
> l1:1:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 1
> l2:2:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 2
> l3:3:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 3
> l4:4:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 4
> l5:5:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 5
> l6:6:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 6
>
> # Trap CTRL-ALT-DELETE
> ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now
>
> # When our UPS tells us power has failed, assume we have a few minutes
> # of power left.  Schedule a shutdown for 2 minutes from now.
> # This does, of course, assume you have powerd installed and your
> # UPS connected and working correctly. 
> pf::powerfail:/sbin/shutdown -f -h +2 "Power Failure; System Shutting Down"
>
> # If power was restored before the shutdown kicked in, cancel it.
> pr:12345:powerokwait:/sbin/shutdown -c "Power Restored; Shutdown Cancelled"
>
>
> # Run gettys in standard runlevels
> co:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty ttyS0 9600 vt100-nav
> 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1
> 2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2
> 3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3
> 4:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty4
> 5:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty5
> 6:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty6
>
> # Run xdm in runlevel 5
> x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon
>
>
>
> Filipe Brandenburger wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 14:23, David Halik <dhalik at jla.rutgers.edu> wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> INIT: Id "snmp" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
>>> INIT: Id "snmp" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
>>> INIT: Id "snmp" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
>>>     
>>>       
>> What does "grep -i snmp /etc/inittab" say?
>>
>> If there is really nothing, try "init q" to see if init is still using
>> old contents of that file. If that does not help, try "init u" as
>> well.
>>
>> If it still does not fix it, please post the full contents of your
>> inittab so that we can help you fix the problem.
>>
>> HTH,
>> Filipe
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>
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David Halik
System Administrator
OIT-CSS Rutgers University
dhalik at jla.rutgers.edu
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