[Samba] restarting samba using a cron job on Debian

[George]

I can confirm that this issue seems resolved (at least) on v.4.3.1

Best regards

On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 6:05 PM, George <jorgito1412 at gmail.com> wrote:

> The same happens to me on Debian 7 with the included Samba 4.1.17.
>
> Although relates to Ubuntu, this is the same issue:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/samba/+bug/1357471
>
> I can tell you that what triggers this are network connectivity issues
> between the DCs, even if they last a couple of seconds. Once the
> connectivity is restored, the replication stays broken unless Samba is
> restarted.
>
> I have recently compiled 4.3.1 and the related libraries from Experimental
> and will give it a shot soon, we'll see if it behaves in the same way. I'll
> keep you posted.
>
> You can also use this little script as a workaround, run frequently via
> cron (provided by Marco van Zwetselaar). Will check if replication is
> broken and restart the service accordingly.
>
> -----
>
> #!/bin/sh
> #
> # check-samba-ad-dc.sh
> #
> #   Stop gap measure to restart the Samba AD DC on WERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED
> #     https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/samba/+bug/1357471
> #     https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11164
>
> TMPFILE="/tmp/$(basename "$0").$$"
>
> if ! samba-tool drs showrepl > "$TMPFILE" ||
>    ! grep -q 'Last attempt .* successful' "$TMPFILE" ||
>      grep -q 'Last attempt .* failed' "$TMPFILE"; then
>     echo "Restarting Samba AD DC at $(date)"
>     service samba-ad-dc restart
> fi
>
> rm -f "$TMPFILE"
>
> -----
>
>
> Best regards.
>
> George
>