[Samba] Re: Cannot start samba

[Bruno Pinaud]

yes i'm using init.d (redhat style). samba is installed in 
/usr/local/samba-3.0.0rc4/. I've got a symbolic link to /usr/local/samba 
which is used by the init.d script.

Le Mercredi 24 Septembre 2003 19:22, Matias Silva a écrit :
> It looks like you are still trying to access the 3.0 version pid file
>
>  > /usr/local/samba-3.0.0rc4/var/locks/nmbd.pid failed. Error was Invalid
>  > argument
>
> How are you starting and stopping samba?  Are you using init.d?
>
> Matias
>
> Bruno Pinaud wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I currently have an old samba 2.2.2 on my network. It's working, but it's
> > quite old...
> > I tried version 3.0.0rc4 but it doesn't want to start. Here are the
> > errors :
> >
> > [2003/09/23 18:27:45, 8] lib/util.c:fcntl_lock(1621)
> >   fcntl_lock 6 13 0 1 1
> > [2003/09/23 18:27:45, 3] lib/util.c:fcntl_lock(1632)
> >   fcntl_lock: fcntl lock gave errno 22 (Invalid argument)
> > [2003/09/23 18:27:45, 3] lib/util.c:fcntl_lock(1651)
> >   fcntl_lock: lock failed at offset 0 count 1 op 13 type 1 (Invalid
> > argument) [2003/09/23 18:27:45, 0] lib/pidfile.c:pidfile_create(97)
> >   ERROR: nmbd : fcntl lock of file
> > /usr/local/samba-3.0.0rc4/var/locks/nmbd.pid failed. Error was Invalid
> > argument
> >
> > The server is a linux 2.4.17 (i cannot change the kernel).
> > Can you help me ?

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Bruno PINAUD
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