[Samba] systemd unit to start Samba as AD DC

[mathias dufresne]

PS: only tested on Centos 7

2015-11-12 15:05 GMT+01:00 mathias dufresne <infractory at gmail.com>:

> Hi all,
>
> Here is my [seem-to-be] working systemd unit to deal with Samba 4.
>
> I'm using Samba 4.3.1 compiled mainly with no option except for
> diredctories where I used --enable-fhs (and  --prefix=/usr
> --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var).
>
> samba-ad.service file content
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [Unit]
> Description=Samba Active Directory Services
> Documentation=man:samba(8)
> After=network.target
>
> [Service]
> Type=forking
> PIDFile=/var/run/samba/samba.pid
> LimitNOFILE=16384
> EnvironmentFile=-/etc/default/samba
> ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/mkdir /var/run/samba
> ExecStart=/usr/sbin/samba -D  -M standard
> ExecReload=/usr/bin/kill -HUP $MAINPID
> #FailureAction=
>
> [Install]
> WantedBy=multi-user.target
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I start from https://dev.tranquil.it/wiki/SAMBA_-_Fichier_systemd_samba4
>
> As the few options used during ./configure made my Samba pid file store in
> /var/run/samba I had to force this directory creation at start time using
> ExecStartPre.
> I kept #FailureAction hoping I figure out what kind of action I could
> place there.
>
> For it works I had to place that file in [/usr]/lib/systemd/system then to
> enable it via systemctl:
> systemctl enable samba-ad.service
>
> Just placing that file in /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/
> gave me possibility to launch samba through systemctl but samba was not
> started at boot time.
>
> Perhaps that would help someone, perhaps it would be only noise :)
>
> Kindly regards,
>
> mathias
>