On Thu, 27 Feb 1997, Horton Denise S wrote:

> I have had some very odd things going on with our listserv server ever
> since I upgraded it from 1.8a to 1.8c.  Every few days or so, the thing
> seems to hang up for no reason.  The logs do not indicate any error,
> but I notice two things that are happening.... the console of my server
> (Solaris 2.3) shows:
>         INIT: Command is respawning too rapidly.  Check for errors.
>
> I also notice two processes for lsv running, which never seemed to
> happen on 1.8a.  Does anyone have an idea what is going on here?
>

The two processes are normal for 1.8c igonore them.

the respawning to rapidly may have to do with a bug in Solaris vis-a-vis
inittab although I have not gotten SUN to agree to that.

The solution is to remove the command from inittab where you respawn lsv
if it dies and to just add a file to /etc/rc3.d called something like:

S99listserv

and the file should contain:

su listserv -c "/export/home/listserv/go bg"

just replace the /export/home/ with the path to the listserv directory.

Regards,

Mark