I'm running RHEL6 and I noticed my upstart jobs keeping getting set to 'stop/waiting' shortly after starting them. It seems to be corresponding with what I'm seeing in my system logs:

2017-12-19T10:17:57.464471-08:00 <server name> init: Re-executing /sbin/init
2017-12-19T10:17:57.468134-08:00 <server name> init: Re-executing /sbin/init
2017-12-19T10:17:57.470619-08:00 <server name> init: Re-executing /sbin/init
2017-12-19T10:18:27.656134-08:00 <server name> init: Re-executing /sbin/init
2017-12-19T10:18:27.659014-08:00 <server name> init: Re-executing /sbin/init
2017-12-19T10:18:27.662703-08:00 <server name> init: Re-executing /sbin/init

init is being re-executed every 30 seconds or so. My question is why is this happening, and how can I stop it if possible?

Thanks!

Typically to me this would be because it is a service which will restart if it is seen to fail. Perhaps you should learn what is driving the execution of /sbin/init and add some debug. It probably thinks (or knows) that something has failed, and is trying to be auto-reliable, because that would be the function of a server.

That was my thought as well; try to figure out what is executing init, but I haven't been able to. Any idea where I should look to find this information?

I don't know RHEL and how it initializes. Their customer portal will likely tell you. An alternative I'm told, is to look at CentOS which is the same as RedHat just free and not with paid support.

A quick web search seems to show that it uses the /etc/rc.d method. So I'd look for a script in that hierarchy which is running /sbin/init. Or perhaps just a find and -exec grep under the /etc tree will do this also.

I ran this command:

find /etc -exec grep "/sbin/init " {} +

result:

/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: # if /sbin/init is not labeled correctly this process is running in the
/etc/rc.sysinit: # if /sbin/init is not labeled correctly this process is running in the

Unfortunately it didn't turn up anything. Any other ideas?

Thanks for the help!

init is the program that starts all other processes at boot in the defined run level...It's the program that runs the scripts in the /etc/rc.d hierarchy.
I did a search for
"init: Re-executing /sbin/init"
and the first returned link was to a RedHat support page that requires login to read. I'm not a RedHat customer, but you are, right?
Have you asked RedHat support?

trace what init starts.
In case it terminates, trace everything it does
(Do this only if your system load is low.)