[Samba] ps -A | grep smbd?

[John H Terpstra]

Jerry,

Have you asked SuSE support?

 -John T.


On Wed, 21 May 2003, Jerry Buburuz wrote:

>
> Hi folks,
>
> I have had a samba 2.2.8a running for a while on a suse box.
> Now recently I have had some strange problems.
>
> "ps -A | grep nmb" Shows nothing.
>
> But, "lsof | grep mbd" shows me smbd and nmbd are running.
> The smbd.pid and nmbd.pib are in /usr/var/locks/.
>
> Now, why out of the blue would "ps -A" not show the processes?
>
> I upgraded samba to 2.2.8a a while ago, after the upgrade I started smbd
> and nmbd like this:
>
> smbd -l /var/log/samba
> nmbd -l /var/log/samba
>
>
> then, "ps -A" showed the pid's for the processes no problem just as
> before.
>
> But something strange has happened, I don't understand why its all the
> sudden not displaying the pid for smbd and nmbd?
>
> Although samba services are running ok, it appears to be working even
> though I cannot see the PID through ps.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> thanks
>
> jerry
>
>

-- 
John H Terpstra
Email: jht at samba.org