How to restart Samba conveniently

[Steve Litt]

Hi everyone -- thanks for the help

I've found the method to retrofit Red Hat's /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb to the new
directory structure. First a copy of /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb must be obtained
from a default Red Hat installation. In addition, your setup must have file
/etc/rc.d/init.d/functions, which is a set of utility shellscript routines.
Each of these two files requires exactly one line change:

*** /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb ***

There's a line that checks for the existence of smb.conf and exits if not:
[ -f /etc/smb.conf ] || exit 0

That line must be changed to the new location:
[ -f /usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf ] || exit 0

*** /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions ***

Near the top there's a line that exports a default path:
export PATH="/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin"

To that line must be appended the Samba binary directory:
export
PATH="/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/samba/bin"

Once these two changes have been accomplished, the following commands
reliably start, stop and restart Samba:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/smb start
/etc/rc.d/init.d/smb stop
/etc/rc.d/init.d/smb restart

Your mileage may vary. Please let me know if it does.

There are similar shellscripts in Caldera and Debian default Samba setups,
so they probably can be similarly retrofitted.

Thanks

Steve Litt


At 03:57 AM 10/20/1999 +1000, you wrote:
>I just downloaded and installed the source to 2.0.5a, and it worked
>perfectly. I really like the fact that everything by default goes under
>/usr/local/samba (I just did the ./configure; make; make install).
>
>The one thing I don't see is the start/stop/restart commands like I used to
>have in my Red Hat rpm installation:
>
>/etc/rc.d/init.d/smb restart
>
>It was a shellscript to read the .pid files, stop, start or stop and start
>smbd and nmbd depending on the argument. Is there such a thing included in
>2.0.5a compiled from source, and if not, what's the best way for me to
>"roll my own".
>
>Thanks
>
>Steve Litt
>
>