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@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@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 _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos