I just realized that this mail of mine might confuse people a bit. 
Please notice that I had comments in the middle of the messages as well
as in the middle of the original message.


On Sun, 09 Apr 2000, you wrote:
| On Sun, 09 Apr 2000, you wrote:
| | Brian T. Schellenberger said:
| | >  A possible way to find out is to do a 
| | >  
| | >  ps alwf > /root/ps-output
| | >  
| | >  when you go to run-level 5; eg, put this:
| | >  
| | >  :5:respawn:ps alwf > /root/ps-output
| | >  
| | >  in your /etc/inittab.  Then we can at least see what's going on when
| | >  this happens.
| | 
| | I added the second line to inittab:
| | #x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon
| | x:5:respawn:ps alwf > /root/ps-output
| | 
| | I put the x at the beginning after the system complained about nothing being
| | there
| | I'm probably still not doing this right somehow, because I'm not getting
| | anything informative.
| | This one line is all it says:
| |   F   UID   PID  PPID PRI  NI       VSZ  RSS WCHAN  STAT TTY        TIME COMMAND
| | 
| 
| That's all that's in your /root/ps-output file?
| 
| Odd.
| 
| 
| | At boot time, there's the message that the line is respawning too fast and will
| | be paused for 5 minutes.
| | 
| | >  Also, your /var/log/messages might show something about switching to
| | >  run-level 5.  Perhaps it will give a clue to who is doing it?
| | 
| | I'll the lines from one boot below my sig.
| | -- 
| | Lane
| | ____
| | Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA
| | Using Linux to get where I want to go...
| | 
| | Apr  9 12:38:52 localhost syslogd 1.3-3: restart.
| | Apr  9 12:38:52 localhost syslog: syslogd startup succeeded
| | Apr  9 12:38:52 localhost kernel: klogd 1.3-3, log source = /proc/kmsg started.
| | Apr  9 12:38:52 localhost syslog: klogd startup succeeded
| | Apr  9 12:38:52 localhost kernel: Inspecting /boot/System.map-2.2.14-15mdk
| | Apr  9 12:38:52 localhost kernel: Loaded 6230 symbols from
| | /boot/System.map-2.2.14-15mdk.
| | Apr  9 12:38:52 localhost kernel: Symbols match kernel version 2.2.14.
| | Apr  9 12:38:52 localhost kernel: Loaded 151 symbols from 10 modules.
| | Apr  9 12:38:53 localhost crond: crond startup succeeded
| | Apr  9 12:38:27 localhost rc.sysinit: Mounting proc filesystem succeeded 
| | Apr  9 12:38:27 localhost date: Sun Apr  9 12:38:26 EDT 2000 
| | Apr  9 12:38:27 localhost rc.sysinit: Setting clock : Sun Apr  9 12:38:26 EDT
| | 2000 succeeded 
| | Apr  9 12:38:27 localhost rc.sysinit: Loading default keymap succeeded 
| | Apr  9 12:38:27 localhost rc.sysinit: Activating swap partitions succeeded 
| | Apr  9 12:38:27 localhost rc.sysinit: Setting hostname localhost succeeded 
| | Apr  9 12:38:27 localhost fsck: /dev/hdb8: clean, 94544/261120 files,
| | 422329/522104 blocks 
| | Apr  9 12:38:27 localhost rc.sysinit: Checking root filesystem succeeded 
| | Apr  9 12:38:27 localhost isapnp: Board 1 has Identity 9a 0b 43 20 32 9e 00 8c
| | 0e:  CTL009e Serial No 188948530 [checksum 9a] 
| | Apr  9 12:38:27 localhost isapnp: CTL009e/188948530[0]{Audio                   }:
| | Ports 0x220 0x330 0x388; IRQ5 DMA1 DMA5 --- Enabled OK 
| | Apr  9 12:38:27 localhost isapnp: CTL009e/188948530[1]{Game            }:
| | Port 0x200; --- Enabled OK 
| | Apr  9 12:38:27 localhost isapnp: CTL009e/188948530[2]{WaveTable       }:
| | Ports 0x620 0xA20 0xE20; --- Enabled OK 
| | Apr  9 12:38:27 localhost rc.sysinit: Setting up ISA PNP devices succeeded 
| | Apr  9 12:38:27 localhost rc.sysinit: Remounting root filesystem in read-write
| | mode succeeded 
| | Apr  9 12:38:27 localhost rc.sysinit: Loading sound module succeeded 
| | Apr  9 12:38:34 localhost rc.sysinit: Loading midi module succeeded 
| | Apr  9 12:38:34 localhost rc.sysinit: Checking filesystems succeeded 
| | Apr  9 12:38:35 localhost rc.sysinit: Mounting local filesystems succeeded 
| | Apr  9 12:38:35 localhost rc.sysinit: Turning on user and group quotas for
| | local filesystems succeeded 
| | Apr  9 12:38:35 localhost rc.sysinit: Enabling swap space succeeded 
| | Apr  9 12:38:36 localhost mandrake_everytime: Building Window Manager Sessions
| | succeeded 
| | Apr  9 12:38:40 localhost init: Switching to runlevel: 5 
| 
| Well, this is where you're switching to run-level 5.  You didn't want
| to do that.   It's happening in "init".
| 
| I don't have such a service on my machine, do you have a file called
| /etc/rc.d/init.d?  Is this listed in your run-level 5 startup?  
| 
| Does anybody else know if there's some other place where an "init"
| would be started?
| 
| 
| | Apr  9 12:38:50 localhost kudzu:  succeeded 
| | Apr  9 12:38:51 localhost network: Bringing up interface lo succeeded 
| | Apr  9 12:38:53 localhost inet: inetd startup succeeded
| | Apr  9 12:38:53 localhost lpd: lpd startup succeeded
| | Apr  9 12:38:53 localhost loadkeys: Loading
| | /usr/lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/us.kmap.gz
| | Apr  9 12:38:53 localhost keytable: Loading keymap: us succeeded
| | Apr  9 12:38:53 localhost loadkeys: Loading
| | /usr/lib/kbd/keymaps/compose/compose.latin.gz
| | Apr  9 12:38:54 localhost keytable: Loading compose keys: compose.latin
| | succeeded
| | Apr  9 12:38:54 localhost keytable:  succeeded
| | Apr  9 12:38:54 localhost keytable: Loading system font:  succeeded
| | Apr  9 12:38:54 localhost PAM_pwdb[379]: (su) session opened for user xfs by
| | (uid=0)
| | Apr  9 12:38:54 localhost PAM_pwdb[379]: (su) session closed for user xfs
| | Apr  9 12:38:54 localhost xfs: xfs startup succeeded
| | Apr  9 12:38:55 localhost linuxconf-setup: Linuxconf final setup
| | Apr  9 12:38:55 localhost rc: Starting linuxconf-setup succeeded
| | Apr  9 12:39:08 localhost PAM_pwdb[400]: (login) session opened for user root
| | by LOGIN(uid=0)
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