daemons not starting form inetd

[Bob Hoekstra]

"Mr. Alex Stepney" wrote:
> 
> All,
> 
> I'm running Samba on various Solaris boxes (all 2.X). One machine
> has been running CV's from about a month ago as a PDC and all other
> boxes 2.0.4b. When I try to upgrade to 2.0.5a or try to install the
> latest CV's neither nmbd or smbd will start from inetd on any 2.5.1
> box. I don't want to move my PDC from the machine its currently
> on, or upgrade to 2.7 (just yet!). Has anyone experienced this or
> found away around the problem?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Alex.

Personally, I don't like the concept of running samba from inetd. I have
been running the attached script (/etc/init.d/samba, symbolic link to
/etc/rc2.d/S99samba) for some time (OS from Solaris 2.4 through 7, can't
remember how many sambas). It's always done the job.

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#!/bin/sh
##########################################
#	Start samba stuff
#	Bob Hoekstra, 25/1/97
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SMBDIR=/usr/local/samba/bin
export SMBDIR

SambaStart () {
   for PROC in smbd nmbd
   do
	$SMBDIR/$PROC -D && echo "Samba $PROC daemon started."
   done
}

SambaStop() {
   for PROC in nmbd smbd
   do
	PS=`ps -ef | grep "${SMBDIR}/${PROC}" | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'`
	if [ "X$PS" = "X" ]
	then
		echo "No $PROC process running."
	else
		kill -9 $PS && echo "$PROC process killed."
	fi
   done
}

case "$1" in
    'start')	SambaStart ;;
    'stop')		SambaStop ;;
    'restart')	SambaStop
				sleep 5
				SambaStart ;;
    *)			echo "Usage: $0 start|stop|restart" ;;
esac