Hi all, Please allow me to share with you my findings today - and would like to hear your comments as well.
Some of my main processing servers/boxes run RH 6.2 on them. Windows users interface with them via Xwin32. In the last two days, I've been noticing that all of us have been loosing all the Xwin connections, mostly overnight. When we come to work in the morning, we just find xwin open but with all the connections gone. I launched on the quest this morning to find the problem. Looked everywhere, till finally I did an "ls" on /var/log/samba. It was taking way, I mean way too long to come back with an answer that I had to <ctrl-c> it. I tried a "du -sm /var/log/samba" and exactly the same thing. I looked at my /etc/smc.conf and found that I'm logging every machine to "/var/log/samba/log.%m", so I starting narrowing down my search. Well what I found blew me away! Every single machine had a number of entries, I mean I big number of entries like: log.machinename.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1. and on, and on, and one. You see what I mean. Some of them seemed to have run out of 1's after about 22 of them and started with 2's and on, and on. After making a copy of the /var/log/samba/ folder somewhere else, I was able to delete most of them except the following two: p--sr-x-wT 1 8810 20310 0 Oct 25 1971 log.triton.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.1.1.1.1.1.1 .1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1 br-sr-xrwt 1 19311 52092 139, 237 Feb 8 2010 log.triton.1.1.1.2.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1 .1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1 Notice the uid and the gid, also notice the date. This machine (the server and the client) didn't even exist then. Of the last one with the year 2010. Of course I have not proven that this will fix my problem with my windows/Linux middleware, but I have a good feeling. If not, I guess I'll just have to keep an eye on this issue. Would anyone have any comments on this? I'd appreciate any feedback. +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ j.rafael.s�nchez Systems Administrator +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Itres Research Limited www.itres.com Phone: 403.250.9944 Fax: 403.250.9916 +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+
