Hello all,
I recently started seeing these messages on the consoles of three production Centos 5.2 servers. They have been occurring nonstop for the past few days and show up routinely every five minutes.
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
Despite trying to debug this and googling for the last couple of hours, I haven't had any luck as to why the errors are generated or how to fix them. There are a ton of posts on the web related to other Id's, such as various tty ports and "x", but I haven't seen a single thing related to "snmp". The answer usually seems to be that there are misconfigured lines in /etc/inittab, but in my case there is nothing even remotely related to "Id snmp" in inittab.
The make matters more confusing, snmp isn't installed or being used on these machines. I doubled checked and the extent of any snmp packages are these two:
# rpm -qa | grep -i snmp perl-Net-SNMP-5.2.0-1.2.el5.rf net-snmp-libs-5.3.1-24.el5_2.1
Both only contain a couple of libraries, so I hardly believe they have anything to do with it.
According to what I've learned, this error is usually generated when init tries to continually respawn a process that dies immediately... but as to what process it could possible be I have no idea. I even tried to strace init (-p1), but apparently this is a forbidden operation:
# strace -p1 attach: ptrace(PTRACE_ATTACH, ...): Operation not permitted
That's a shame too, but at least I could see what init is trying to do.
Any ideas? I'm just about stumped as to how to proceed at this point.
Thanks in advance.