Loopy stuff

[David Collier-Brown]

  I don't get that, but then I'm running samba from rc3.d: the
messages you see are inetd seeing something odd with nmbd.
  I generally recommend against using inetd with samba, unless
you only have one or two very-occasional users.

  The "looping" message is a warning about the application
misbehaving:
if it doesn't consume UDP packets before exiting, inetd spots that 
and puts out that particular message.

[Put Sun hat on]
   If you have a service contract, tell your salesperson that you
I think you may have an inetd bug, number 4335695
   It's harmless, by the way...
[Take Sun hat off]


  I reccomend you use an S95samba.server script in /etc/rc3.d:
mine is attached.


--dave
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#!/bin/sh
#
# S95samba.server -- start and stop samba
#
main() {
	if [ $# -lt 1 ]; then
		say "S95samba.server: you must provide a command."
		say "Usage: $0 {start | stop | restart | status}"
		exit 1
	fi

	command="$1"
	shift

	case "$command" in
	start) start "$@" ;;
	stop) stop "$@" ;;
	restart) stop "$@"; start "$@" ;;
	status)	status "$@" ;;
	esac
}

start() {
	root
	/usr/local/samba/bin/nmbd -D "$@"
	LD_PRELOAD=/usr/local/samba/lib/arm.so \
		/usr/local/samba/bin/smbd -D "$@"
}

stop() {
	root
	x=`ps -ef |\
	egrep '/usr/local/samba/bin/nmbd|/usr/local/samba/bin/smbd' |\
	egrep -v 'egrep' |\
	awk ' {print $2}'`
	kill $x
}

status() {
	echo "     UID   PID  PPID  C    STIME TTY      TIME CMD"
	ps -ef | grep -v grep | grep '/usr/local/samba/bin/'
}

say() {
	echo "$*" 1>&2
}

root() {
	if [ "`/usr/ucb/whoami`" != "root" ]; then
		say "You must be root to issue this command."
		kill $$
	fi
}

main "$@"