Whit Blauvelt wrote: >With smbd Version 3.0.33-3.14.el5 on two different CentOS 5.4 64-bit boxes, >"/etc/init.d/smb start" reports OK for both nmbd and smbd, but an instant >later smbd stops running, with no errors reported - just fails, no matter >what logging level is requested of it. Also, "service smb start" fails. > >On the other hand, "smbd -D" starts and runs smbd just fine, if done from >a >console. Also "sh /etc/init.d/smb start" runs it just fine, if from a >console. (sh = bash on CentOS, and the smb script itself specifies >/bin/sh.)
That feels as if it could be an SELinux problem. If your initscript has been edited and picked up the wrong context, smbd will not have all the permissions it normally gets. Try ls -Z /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb restorecon -v /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb Moray. "To err is human. To purr, feline" -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
