[Samba] winbindd crashing -- how to auto-heal?

[Rowland Penny]

On Mon, 3 Sep 2018 15:37:03 +0200
Luca Olivetti via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> El 3/9/18 a les 15:23, Robert Marcano via samba ha escrit:
> 
> >>
> >> I run this cron job every minute. Winbind usually crashes once or 
> >> twice a day
> >>
> >> #!/bin/bash
> >> getent group | grep -q 513 && exit 0
> >> echo "restarting winbind"
> >> systemctl restart winbind
> > 
> > If the failure is a full daemon crash and not some kind of internal 
> > failure, you can edit the service unit file (systemd) and add a
> > restart mode
> > 
> > # systemctl edit winbind
> > 
> >    [Service]
> >    Restart=on-failure
> > 
> 
> In my case the daemon doesn't crash, it just stops resolving (some)
> groups. In any case the above check covers both cases.
> 

The OP's winbind isn't crashing either, he is running it as a single
instance. 

Why does your winbind stop resolving groups ?
Is it always the same groups ?
How are you running Samba ?

Rowland