[Samba] SWAT Won't Start - Alarm Clock

[Ryan Novosielski]

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Michael Heydon wrote:
> 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)?

I've only ever run swat through inetd, myself.

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