[Samba] stability

[Dan Shadix]

killproc is defined in /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions that's called by the rc scripts.  In my case it was only killing one nmbd while multiples were actually running.

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "D. Rick Anderson" <ruger at acsnv.com>
Reply-To: ruger at acsnv.com
Date:  Fri, 6 Jun 2003 13:21:32 -0700 (PDT)

>killproc doesn't even exist on this machine, yet it was how the script was
>'attempting' to stop nmbd. I'm sure that the version (2.2.7a) installed
>with RedHat must have been using just kill.
>
>I changed it to killall, but I'm going to wait until all of the users
>logoff and go home before I start dorkin' around with it.
>
>Thanks!
>
>Rick
>
>
>> Are you sure that all of the nmbd processes are actually stopping the
>> first time you issue the command.  I had to change the killproc command
>> to killall on one system so that nmbd would actually be completely
>> stopped.
>>
>> Dan
>>
>> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
>> From: "D. Rick Anderson" <ruger at acsnv.com>
>> Reply-To: ruger at acsnv.com
>> Date:  Fri, 6 Jun 2003 10:58:33 -0700 (PDT)
>>
>>>I'm having problems when I restart the smb server with it not coming
>>> back up. As near as I can tell it's actually NMBD that's having the
>>> issue. I'm running RedHat 9.0 on a Compaq ML-370 with Dual 1.2GHz P3s
>>> and I just upgraded Samba to 2.2.8a-1 after having this same problem
>>> with 2.2.7a
>>>
>>>When I issue:
>>>#service smb restart
>>>
>>>It says that it shut down and restarted ok, but then nobody can logon
>>> to the domain, so I issue it again and it tells me that it couldn't
>>> kill nmbd, but then it starts it OK, and I can get everyone on.
>>>
>>>There's also been a few times where it just stopped accepting logons,
>>> after accepting them for most of the day, so I restart it, and it tells
>>> me then that it couldn't kill nmbd either.
>>>
>>>testparm doesn't find anything wrong with my config. Does anybody know
>>> of a way to stabalize this?
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>
>>>Rick
>>>
>>>
>>>
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