Winbindd hangs (from today CVS)

Simo Sorce idra at samba.org
Tue Jan 22 00:48:11 GMT 2002


Do NOT run it on True64 if you do not want to shutdown the system :)

On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 10:25:19AM +1030, Matthew Geddes wrote:
> Tim Potter wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 11:59:54AM +1300, Jason Haar wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>[Before I forget. Having a /var/run/winbindd file containing the PID of
> >>winbindd would be REALLY good. As it is, if it hangs, how do you find the
> >>PID to kill when 'ps' is hanging 'cause winbindd has hung? :-)]
> >>
> > 
> > I run 'killall -9 winbindd' which is probably a linux-ism.  Having a pid
> > file is a good idea though.
> > 
> 
> Linux, FreeBSD and perhaps other Open Source unices. I don't know of any 
> commercial flavours of unix that have a killall command (apart from 
> AIX). Don't run killall on AIX though, as it kills all processes owned 
> by that user (as far as I can tell). Running it as root is not good. :-)
> 
> A pid file is a good idea.
> 
> Hope it helps,
> Matt
> 
> 

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