[ale] odd log message

[Pete Hardie]

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 10:50 PM, Sean <kilpatms at speakeasy.net> wrote:
> my main log file is filling up with this message:
>
>>May 19 22:31:42 localhost init: Id "co" respawning too fast: disabled for
> 5 minutes
>>May 19 22:38:23 localhost init: Id "co" respawning too fast: disabled for
> 5 minutes
>>May 19 22:45:04 localhost init: Id "co" respawning too fast: disabled for
> 5 minutes
>
> I would appreciate a clue as to what might be going on.
> This is a FC7 system.

initd is complaining that a process is being spawned and is dying so
fast that the respawn rate is too hihg, and it's throttling it.

ths "co" process is probably failing hard with a parameter error.
Check your inittab for a bad command line for something called co.

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Pete Hardie
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