[Samba] Strange locking behaviour upsets Apache

[Volker Lendecke]

On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 10:07:00AM +0000, Dave Ewart wrote:
> At the same time as the '500 Internal Server Error' is sent to the
> browser, the following appears in the Apache logs:
> 
>     [error] (26)Text file busy: exec of
>     /home/user/public_html/blah/blah.cgi failed
>  
> "Text file busy" is the key.  If one runs 'smbstatus | grep epic_plasma'
> (in this case) and watches the locks shown for the file being edited, a
> lock is seen:
> 
>     28434 1165 DENY_WRITE 0x2019f RDWR EXCLUSIVE+BATCH
>     /home/user/public_html/blah/blah.cgi [...]

Try using "oplocks = no". Be aware though that this has
performance implications.

Volker
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