system gets stuck for 6 minutes during boot

[MoshiachNow]

HI,
During boot my AIX 4.3.3 system gets stuck for 6 minutes with the below message.

/etc/skulker started at Tue Sep 21 11:41:19 BST 2004 on brisque2

0046AC9A4C00

/etc/skulker finished at Tue Sep 21 11:46:55 BST 2004 on brisque2

0046AC9A4C00

/methods/cfggxme -2 -l gxme0

Number of running methods: 1

Any ideas ?


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[alexhu]

from the AIX manuals

The skulker command is a command file for periodically purging obsolete or unneeded files from file systems. Candidate files include files in the /tmp directory, files older than a specified age, a.out files, core files, or ed.hup files.

The skulker command is normally invoked daily, often as part of an accounting procedure run by the cron command during off-peak periods. Modify the skulker command to suit local needs following the patterns shown in the distributed version. Local users should be made aware of the criteria for automatic file removal.

It would appear you have this running during startup

Alex

 

[lillracksingen]

The most common place to invoke skulker from is root's crontab. In your case it seems to be in /etc/inittab or possibly one of your /etc/rc* scripts.
We use skulker at my site but we have it run at midnight through cron:
[tt]0 0 * * * /usr/sbin/skulker >/var/adm/skulker.log 2>&1[/tt]

 

[MoshiachNow]

Thanks,

I new it's running and what it's doing,just could not figure out why would it stick on this machine.

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