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There is a "Oracle Solaris 11.4" system, where we have a flood messages in dmesg.

genunix: [ID 200113 kern.warning] WARNING: symlink creation failed, error 2

This messages appears every 15 minutes, but I didn't find any crontab job with this interval starting.

Is there a way to know what is the process runs every 15 minutes? May I use dtrace or something else?

Thanks

Ivan Niagara
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    If your entire message is something like `May 14 21:41:57 hostname genunix: [ID 200113 kern.warning] WARNING: symlink creation failed, error 2`, there is no process. That's a message from the kernel itself. I'd suggest looking in `/var/svc/log` for log entries with the same timestamp. A `dtrace` script on `fbt:genunix:create_symlink` or one of the other `*symlink*` probes should work. I suspect someone "cleaned up" in `/etc` `/var` or some other system directory and removed a directory the kernel expects to be there. – Andrew Henle May 15 '21 at 15:53
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    One known cause of this is if the system is trying to save a core dump when the directory listed by `coreadm` is not available. – alanc May 15 '21 at 23:13

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