samba and inetd problems

[John E. Malmberg]

Gerald Carter <gcarter at valinux.company> wrote:
> Ron Alexander wrote:
> >
> > Can someone PLEASE tell me if using inetd is the recommended
> > way or not?
> >
> The recommended method is to run smbd and nmbd as daemons.
> What books do you have?
>
> For what it's worth, I think only when run as a daemon does samba
> worry about *pid files.  This is off the top of my without
> consulting the code though.

The *pid files are generated always.  I had to disable it on OpenVMS through
some code in config.h. to redirect

On OpenVMS, nmbd is run as a daemon, but smbd is run from the inetd
equivalent.  This is a result of not having an efficient fork() capability.

-John
wb8tyw at qsl.network