On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 04:35, Buchan Milne wrote: > 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?
Manually stopping samba works and the PID is removed. going to init 1 goes through the same procedure and shows the same results. Let me see if I can capture something this way. James > > > > >>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
