[Samba] SWAT Won't Start - Alarm Clock

[Michael Heydon]

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
>
> <snip>

It's been a while since I last used swat so this may have changed, but 
back in the day swat didn't handle its own network stuff. Have you tried 
adding swat to your *inetd config (assuming you have one). If you don't 
have any form of inetd running, maybe it would be possible to hack 
something together using netcat (obviously not a good idea for a 
production environment)?

*Michael Heydon - IT Administrator *
michaelh at jaswin.com.au <mailto:michaelh at jaswin.com.au>