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 -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7
