[Samba] stability

[Joel Hammer]

I think you might be helped by looking at the startup scripts and see just
what is hapening.  You don't need fancy scripts to start and stop samba.
For example, here is all I have in mind:

#!/bin/bash
case "$1" in
 start)        
  killall smbd
  killall nmbd
/usr/local/samba/bin/smbd -D
/usr/local/samba/bin/nmbd -D
  ;;

 stop)
  killall smbd
  killall nmbd
 ;;
 reload)
 kill -SIGHUP `cat /usr/local/samba/var/locks/smbd.pid`
 kill -SIGHUP `cat /usr/local/samba/var/locks/nmbd.pid`
 ;;
 *)
 echo Usage: 
 echo start stop reload
 ;;
esac
exit 0

To find where your binaries are, just run:
which smbd
which nmbd

To find where your logs and such are, this MIGHT help:
strings `which smbd` | grep samba

You can modify this to take into account your own configuration.
You can also run nmbd from the command line and increase debugging to see
what is happening in case nmbd is crashing. You can also look in your nmbd
log.

Joel


On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 10:58:33AM -0700, D. Rick Anderson wrote:
> 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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> 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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