FWD: Re: [Samba] stability

[Dan Shadix]

>From the killall man page:

       killall sends a signal to all processes running any of the
       specified  commands.  If  no  signal  name  is  specified,
       SIGTERM is sent.


---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Oscar A. Valdez" <oscar.valdez at plastipak.com.sv>
Date:  06 Jun 2003 16:10:23 -0600

>>From the smbd man page:
>
>"To shut down a user's smbd process it is recommended that SIGKILL (-9)
>NOT  be used, except as a last resort, as this may leave the shared
>memory area in an inconsistent state. The safe way to terminate an smbd
>is to send it a SIGTERM (-15) signal and wait for it to die on its own."
>
>and from the nmbd man page:
>
>"To shut down an nmbd process it is recommended that SIGKILL (-9) NOT be
>used, except as a last resort, as this may leave the name database in an
>inconsistent state. The correct way to terminate nmbd is to send it a
>SIGTERM (-15) signal and wait for it to die on its own."
>
>Oscar
>
>El vie, 06-06-2003 a las 14:06, Joel Hammer escribió:
>> 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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>Plastipak, S.A. de C.V.
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