From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 29 12:06:44 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E91016A4CE for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 12:06:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp4.server.rpi.edu (smtp4.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B389C43FCB for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 12:06:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp4.server.rpi.edu (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h9TK6daE025049; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 15:06:40 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <002201c39e52$09d61dc0$04fea8c0@moe> References: <002201c39e52$09d61dc0$04fea8c0@moe> Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 15:06:38 -0500 To: "Charles Howse" , From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) Subject: RE: Smbd process not disconnecting X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 20:06:44 -0000 At 1:22 PM -0600 10/29/03, Charles Howse wrote: >Garance wrote: > > >> I'm not much of an expert on the low-level details, but I can >> say that what you're seeing is also what I've seen, and that >> I believe samba is supposed to work that way. > >I just checked again, and the connection was closed at 12:13 >local time, about 24 hours later. I guess that's acceptable, >as long as it *does* finally close on it's own. > >Thanks for the reply! I believe there's an option which controls how long that process will stay around. Glancing at my smb config file, it might be the one called "dead time". -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu