[asterisk-users] In my messages log..

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Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 04:08:11PM -0700, Dominic Son wrote:
>   
>> Hi. I'm still a bit of a newb to linux, I see this in my messages log:
>> Asterisk init: Id "ax" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
>>
>> What does this mean?
>> and how severe is it?
>>     
>
> This is something to do with your distribution oior your local setup and
> probably nothing to do with asterisk. The message comes from the init
> process.
>
> To see the command for label "ax" see:
>
>   grep ^ax /etc/inittab
>
> or actually:
>
>   grep ^ax /etc/inittab | cut -d: -f3-
>   

In Debian/Ubuntu/etc. you're actually going to need to try

  grep ^respawn /etc/event.d/ax | cut -d' ' -f2-

to see what exactly called 'ax' is being respawned.