possible rtfm question...

[Andrew Bartlett]

Bill Moran wrote:
> 
> On Thursday 18 October 2001 19:38, Tony Ricker wrote:
> > On 10/18/01 6:05 PM, "Bill Moran" <wmoran at iowna.com> wrote:
> > > On Thursday 18 October 2001 16:52, Tony Ricker wrote:
> > >> When you restart samba, you only see smb being restarted. Was nmb
> > >> combined with smb? I see no issues with samba working. Just wondering.
> > >
> > > smbd  and nmbd are seperate processes ... depending on what method you
> > > use to restart, you may only be redstarting smbd.  swat, for example,
> > > allows you to restart the two seperately.  If one is acting funky and the
> > > other isn't,
> > > then there's not reason to restart both.
> > > Most systems that install a rc.d type startup script will
> > > start/stop/restart the
> > > two processes in tandem.  I'd be a little curious if they didn't.
> >
> > Bill
> >     Let me be more specific: with samba 2.2.1a on RH7.1 the command service
> > smb restart visually restarted both smb and nmb procs. Doing the same
> > command on samba 2.2.2 only visually restarts smb. When I service nmb
> > restart I get service unknown. Would this change your answer? Thanks for
> > your time.
> 
> I wasn't aware that any changes that drastic (like combining smb/nmb) had
> occurred in 2.2.2 - Then again, I haven't upgraded any of my systems that
> far yet, so I wouldn't know.
> 
> I guess this question needs to go to someone more intimately involved with
> development.

RedHat's init scripts start and stop Samba as two seperate deamons
within the same script, hence the two 'OK' messages.  Our own secript
does it as a single line, sounding 'OK' if they both startup correctly. 
Nothing to worry about.

Andrew Bartlett

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