Thanks for your prompt reply.
The commands i put into the inittab file are the ones given in the
documentation:
SV:123456:respawn:env - PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin
svscan /service </dev/null >/dev/console 2>/dev/console
since svscan is located /usr/local/bin, it is clearly in the path.
Besides, the message is talking about respawning too fast... it is still
doing it at this time as well. Any other information you can give is
greatly appreciated!
> On 20 Dec 2000, Mark Delany wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 11:42:57AM -0800, Thomas Holton wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello, I installed svscan, as instructed for best performance with qmail,
> >
> > Well, svscan doesn't affect the performance of qmail - it affects the
> > manageability and reliability of starting qmail.
> >
> > > and then i started qmail using csh because svscan did not start it in
> > > enough time. now i have this message in my /var/log/messages file:
> > >
> > > Dec 2 .. init: Id "SV" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> > >
> > > dont know how to fix this either, it has been doing this now for about 45
> > > minutes... any ideas?
> >
> > This is actually a general Unix admin question, but be that as it
> > may...
> >
> > You could have made make life a lot easier by showing us the inittab
> > entry. Did you double-check that your inittab entry is correct? Did
> > you read the inittab man page to understand what it's trying to do?
> > How does that gel with the inittab entry you created?
> >
> > My guess is that you've got the path wrong to svscan or that the path
> > points to something that isn't executable or that you've asked svscan
> > to scan a directory that doesn't exist.
> >
> >
> > Regards.
> >
>
