samba-vms Digest, Vol 37, Issue 7

[Stephen Eickhoff]

samba-vms-request at lists.samba.org wrote:

> Message: 4
> Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 10:19:48 +0100
> From: COLLOT Jean-Yves <jean-yves.collot at cofiroute.fr>
> Subject: RE : RE : NMBD Problem on Samba2.2.8+Multinet and OpenVMS
> 	7.3-1 
> To: "'Luiz Guilherme Regis Emediato'" <lgemedia at if.usp.br>,
> 	"'samba-vms at lists.samba.org'" <samba-vms at lists.samba.org>
> Message-ID:
> 	<CF0913E9C3D53D4E94DE47FDE25C633D0845EF40 at hermes.cofiroute.com>
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> 
> This is true.
> The NMBD.PID file contains the PID of the NMBD process. When NMBD starts, it
> reads that file, and checks if that PID is a living process. If it is, NMBD
> thinks that another NMBD is already running, and stops.
> 
> Obviously, this is a typical Unix scheme, but it does not work too well on
> VMS. 
> 
> The easiest way, of course, is to delete that file in the SAMBA_STARTUP.COM
> procedure.

Is it not sufficient to put sys$startup:SAMBA_SHUTDOWN.COM in the SYSHUTDWN.COM?

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        Stephen  Eickhoff
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"Woe to those who call evil good
  and good evil,
  who put darkness for light
  and light for darkness,
  who put bitter for sweet
  and sweet for bitter."

                   Isaiah 5:20
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