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#1 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 05:30 PM

Dear experts,

I have a strange symptom with Redhat Advanced Server 2.1.

When I booted the machine, it hung at the message:
starting atd

It hung for overnight at this place. No message
or anything. Of course, I couldn't get to dmesg.

Fortunately, I could go into another kernel and change things.

cd /etc/rc.d/init.d
mv atd atd_bak

The machine then booted in the normal manner.

I've been reading the man pages about atd.
It seems to be related to cron.

What is atd all about? Is it necessary to have it?
Do you think that it is atd that is hanging, or
some kind of cron job that it is calling?

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks

#2 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 05:32 PM

linuxquestion@yahoo.com wrote:
> Dear experts,
>
> I have a strange symptom with Redhat Advanced Server 2.1.
>
> When I booted the machine, it hung at the message:
> starting atd
>
> It hung for overnight at this place. No message
> or anything. Of course, I couldn't get to dmesg.
>

does it hang there everytime you boot?

clg

#3 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 05:32 PM

Yes, it hung every time.

Until I changed the name to fool it upon booting
(different kernel). It booted then.

After, I changed the name back, and it worked fine.

Go figure.

> does it hang there everytime you boot?
>
>
> clg

Carl <moc.erawtfosdigir@treblig_tnomal> wrote in message news:<4002C393.3020400@treblig_tnomal>...
> linuxquestion@yahoo.com wrote:
> > Dear experts,
> >
> > I have a strange symptom with Redhat Advanced Server 2.1.
> >
> > When I booted the machine, it hung at the message:
> > starting atd
> >
> > It hung for overnight at this place. No message
> > or anything. Of course, I couldn't get to dmesg.
> >

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