[Samba] Fwd: Samba 4.1.9 - Could not find child error

[Krishna Harathi]

No, printing = bsd or BSD did not stop logging of these messages. Any other
option to try?

Thanks for the insight.

Regards.
Krishna Harathi


On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 2:19 AM, Volker Lendecke <Volker.Lendecke at sernet.de>
wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 07:14:20AM -0700, Krishna Harathi wrote:
> > Resending, this did not make it yesterday.
> >
> > Regards.
> > Krishna Harathi
> >
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Krishna Harathi <kharathi at exablox.com>
> > Date: Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 2:00 PM
> > Subject: Samba 4.1.9 - Could not find child error
> > To: samba at lists.samba.org
> >
> >
> > We are seeing this error in the logs every minute -
> >
> > [2014/07/23 16:40:59.829260,  2, pid=13355]
> > ../source3/smbd/server.c:437(remove_child_pid)
> >
> >   Could not find child 19021 -- ignoring
> >
> > I know there is an old bug/fix -
> > https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8269
> >
> > smb.conf entries related to printer and printcap (disabled) -
> >
> > load printers = no
> >
> > printcap name = /dev/null
> >
> > printcap cache time = 0
> >
> > log level = 2
> >
> > We want the log level to be 2. I see that the code - in Samba 4.1.9
> >
> > if (child == NULL) {
> >
> >                 /* not all forked child processes are added to the
> children
> > list */
> >
> >                 DEBUG(2, ("Could not find child %d -- ignoring\n",
> > (int)pid));
> >
> >                 return;
> >
> >         }
> >
> > Question - Given the log level we want, how can we prevent these errors
> in
> > the log? Did I miss some parameter disabling printer/printcap completely?
> > How do we stop forking these untracked processes?
>
> Does "printing = bsd" help?
>
> > Does Samba 4.1X continue to  use source3 code base (as seen in the log
> > entry)?
>
> Yes, it does. Samba 4.1 and also 4.2 use the smbd file
> server that has been around forever. It is in source3/.
> We might rename the source directory at some point in the
> future, but this is definitely not in our focus :-)
>
> Volker
>
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