SMB process owned by root NOT Users?
Mitch McNeel
mitchm at mwh.com
Wed Dec 6 19:17:18 GMT 2000
Thanks to all that replied!!!
The deadtime option should fix my inactive processes problem, but I still have
a few more questions. Why is it, some of my smbd processes are actually owned
by the users logon and some are owned by root?. Once in a while I have a hand
full of user owned smbd processes. Is that normal or should all processes be
owned by root and not the user?
TIAV.
Mitch
"Romeril, Alan" wrote:
> Hi Mitch,
> That`s fairly normal behaviour, on our systems the smbd`s become
> owned by root after logon. What we find useful is the dead time parameter.
> We set it to about an hour, but it`s really up to what your users need, it
> might help clean up your machine.
>
> From the smb.conf manpage....
> deadtime (G)
>
> The value of the parameter (a decimal integer)
> represents the number of minutes of inactivity before a
> connection is considered dead, and it is disconnected.
> The deadtime only takes effect if the number of open
> files is zero.
>
> This is useful to stop a server's resources being
> exhausted by a large number of inactive connections.
>
> Most clients have an auto-reconnect feature when a con-
> nection is broken so in most cases this parameter
> should be transparent to users.
>
> Using this parameter with a timeout of a few minutes is
> recommended for most systems.
>
> A deadtime of zero indicates that no auto-disconnection
> should be performed.
>
> Default: deadtime = 0
>
> Example: deadtime = 15
>
> Cheers,
> Alan
>
> Unix Workstation Manager
> Cluster Support Group
> Imperial College London
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mitch McNeel [mailto:mitchm at mwh.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 6:10 PM
> To: Samba Technical
> Subject: SMB process owned by root NOT Users?
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a question about the smb process. When a
> user disconnects from the samba server, their smb process
> does NOT die, it ends up being owned by root. Is this a bug
> or is there a fix for this?
>
> Machine is a: Sun UE-450
> O/S is: Sun Solaris 2.6 with latest patches
> Samba Version is: 2.0.3
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
> TIAV.
> Mitch
>
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