[Samba] Samba creating multiple isntances of the deamon

[Jeremy Allison]

On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 10:44:56AM -0500, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
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> Jeremy Allison wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 08:17:43AM -0400, Benoit Gauthier wrote:
> >> (2005.10.17, 08:11)
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> >>> Will one of the long lived processes respond to kill -TERM ?
> >> All processes die after a "killall -9 smbd" even though the oldest one
> >> takes several seconds to do so.
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> > Never kill smbd with -9. It can leave important tdb files in a
> > corrupt state.
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> Jeremy,
> 
> The problem is that smbd will *not* respond to a SIGTERM.
> SO it's stuck in a loop or stuck state.  That's what we are
> trying to track down.

Ah - gdb and strace are your friends in that case :-)
Also if it's stuck in a loop it's probably safer to -9 than
normal, as depending on what it's doing it's less likely
to be executing critical code.

Jeremy.