On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 02:51, Buchan Milne wrote: > James Sparenberg wrote: > > > One question though... what is it in Killall that tries to stop > > Samba... I've noticed it first here testing 9.1 but on my 9.0 and 8.2 > > boxes as well smb gets stopped nmb reports failed then once killall > > starts up it then again attempts to shutdown smb and nmb again. This is > > no show stopper I think I submitted the bug as a p4, but inevitably the > > user who has the least understanding (or capability to understand) is > > the one who panics when they see the FAILED in big read letters. > > Probably a misconfigured samba and the fact that we start/stop smbd and > nmbd together. So, /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb stops smbd, tries to stop nmbd > and fails (was not running or had a name conflict or something like > that), and since both killprocs did not succeed, it does not remove the > lock file, so it is run again.
this is the hard part. Since I'm in a shutdown situation how do I check to see if the lockfile is getting removed or not. > > I guess we should put a check in to see if nmbd and smbd are really > running, but it may be better to leave the error so the user knows they > have something to fix? This is the thing... what is the fix. Samba is working quite well so I'm pretty sure the config is good. (printing shares etc are solid.) I really don't do much more than use samba to print on a windows box at home. > > SuSE has split their init scripts for samba into one each for smbd and > nmbd, mainly to allow an nmbd restart (to reregister in WINS for > example) without killing smbd (and the connections). But it makes > complications ... I would rather add another option to the script that > just restarts nmbd ... but I have never had this problem, so I do not > have a setup to test ... killall -HUP nmbd always worked for me. As I said there is no real "problem" here. other than the hassle of explaining to the users that this isn't a real problem. What I really need is a way to pump startup and shutdown info to dev/null so that my "experts" don't see it *grin* > > Buchan
