[ale] odd log message

[James Sumners]

Okay, that makes a little more sense than "ld" being launched via initd.

Sean, look for a line in /etc/inittab that begins `co:#:respawn:...`.
The 'o' might be a '0'. Either way, the quoted identifier should be in
the first field. The program that is being spawned is in the fourth
field. The program listed in the fourth field is what is causing the
problem.

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 11:22 PM, Pete Hardie <pete.hardie at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
> --
> Pete Hardie

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