[Samba] SWAT Won't Start - Alarm Clock

[Paul Venzke]

On Mon March 10 2008 10:07, Bit wrote:
> Hey everyone,
>
> If anyone could help me with this problem, I'd greatly appreciate it.
>
> Whenever I try to start swat (from the command-line by invoking
> /usr/sbin/swat), it sits there for a very long time as if it's running,
> but any attempt to use telnet to the port or point my browser at it
> results in nothing, as if swat were just not running.  Firewalling is no
> issue, I've disabled it.  Swat ultimately dies after a few minutes
> giving no output to the console other than "Alarm clock".  What does
> this error message mean?
>
> I've tried running swat with -d 10 and "strace /usr/sbin/swat -o myfile"
> hoping that the output will mean more to someone else than it does to
> me.  I've seen other people with this problem googling around, but no
> solution, and I can't seem to figure it out on my own.
>
> Thanks in advance for the help,
> bit
>
>
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Have you tried using your browser  with http://localhost:901/

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PV

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