James Sparenberg wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 02:51, Buchan Milne wrote:
> 
>>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. 

What happens if you stop samba manually? Or if you init 1?

> 
>>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.
> 

Weird ... will have to bounce a few machines to test, but I do not
remember seeing this ...

Buchan

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