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Statts, Pearce (IndSys, GEFanuc, NA) wrote:
Admins,
I've got a Sun Ultra Enterprise 250 running Solaris 2.6 and Samba
> 2.2.4. This system is one of the primary machines in our network, > handling not only Samba filesharing, but also NIS and DNS. Last > night, I made several changes to the smb.conf file that were not > picked up by the running Samba processes, so I requested an > smbd restart via the SWAT web admin tool. As I was waiting for > the SWAT page to refresh itself, our network administrator > informed me that the server I was working on had dropped off > of the network. It turned out that the system had crashed > and was sitting at it's "OK" prompt, waiting to be rebooted. > This is one of the most critical machines on our network, so > of course there was a bit of embarrassment on my end to discover > that I had inadvertently crashed it. After a reboot, > everything returned to normal.
if a user space application can crash the system, its an OS/kernel bug.
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