[PATCH] Run 'samba' daemon in foreground

Andreas Schneider asn at samba.org
Tue Nov 28 09:19:51 UTC 2017


On Monday, 27 November 2017 20:01:41 CET Rowland Penny via samba-technical 
wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Nov 2017 19:43:01 +0100
> Andreas Schneider via samba-technical <samba-technical at lists.samba.org>
> 
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > attached is a patch to address an issue with systemd and Samba
> > daemons running in notify mode. In this mode we should not double
> > fork. So we should start the daemons with --foreground. Also systemd
> > will take care of the process group we should not handle that in
> > Samba.
> > 
> > For this I've added --foreground to the 'samba' daemon.
> > 
> > 
> > Review is much appreciated. If OK please push.
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > 	Andreas
> 
> NACK, until you explain if this affects distros that don't use
> systemd ?

I don't think that those distros use pass the newly added option --foreground 
option by default to the samba binary ...


	Andreas

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