[Samba] ps -A | grep smbd?

[Jerry Buburuz]

thnks...the problem was do to a hack.
smbd and nmbd were running, but the hacker replaced binaries such as "ps" 
command.
thanks for the help...

jerry

On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, John H Terpstra wrote:

> 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
> >
> >
> 
> 

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