[Samba] Option configure

Sonic sonicsmith at gmail.com
Wed Jul 13 16:37:20 UTC 2016


If indeed it generally works either way, that is with Type=fork and
Type=notify is one actually preferable than the other?

As I posted earlier - systemd says:
"If set to forking, it is expected that the process configured with
ExecStart= will call fork() as part of its start-up. The parent
process is expected to exit when start-up is complete and all
communication channels are set up. The child continues to run as the
main daemon process. This is the behavior of traditional UNIX
daemons."

Does the above actually occur with the nmbd, smbd, and samba binaries?
IOW, do they act, in this sense, like traditional UNIX daemons? If so,
maybe Type=fork is the preferred method, if not, maybe Type=notify
should be used.

Chris



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