On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 1:16 AM, Moray Henderson < [email protected]> wrote:
> 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 test if it is selinux you might try with selinux set to permissive. I had all kinds of troubles getting samba 3.0.33 working on centos 5.4, 64-bit until I tried that. Good luck. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
