From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 3 6:29: 2 2002 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 C8E6137B400 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 06:28:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailhost.gu.edu.au (kraken.itc.gu.edu.au [132.234.250.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C991F43E09 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 06:28:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from steve@cit.gu.edu.au) Received: from kurango.cit.gu.edu.au (daemon@kurango.cit.gu.edu.au [132.234.86.1]) by mailhost.gu.edu.au (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id g63DSwZ00519; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 23:28:59 +1000 (EST) Received: from localhost (steve@localhost) by kurango.cit.gu.edu.au (8.12.2/8.12.2) with SMTP id g63DSrY7026640; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 23:28:54 +1000 (EST) Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 23:28:53 +1000 (EST) From: Steven Goodwin To: Roger Merritt Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Samba disappears? In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20020703091839.007f6180@stjohn.stjohn.ac.th> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Roger Merritt wrote: > I've just discovered that in the last month or so one of my servers is > behaving strangely. The Samba daemon starts up normally, but then the > process disappears. When I run 'ps -aux | grep smb' the only process that Try 'ps auxww | grep smb' and you may see the processes. Without the ww the process names outputed by ps may be truncated due to your terminal width. Steve > shows up is grep. I've tried running it from the command line with the > debug flag set, but the log doesn't show anything -- it shows the daemon > starting, loading parameters, and then nothing. The .pid file remains in > /var/run, but there's no process active. > > I'm currently running FreeBSD 4.5: > [root@kepler:~]# uname -a > FreeBSD kepler.implab.ac.th 4.5-STABLE FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE #0: Wed Feb 27 > 08:29:05 ICT 2002 root@kepler.implab.ac.th:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/KEPLER > i386 > > and [root@kepler:~]# /usr/local/sbin/smbd -V > Version 2.0.7 > > I can't tell exactly when this behavior started, but it's only been a month > or six weeks. Natd is working fine, so all the Win98 boxes connected to > this server can connect to the Internet (the most important function), but > they can't see the server as a Windoze resource, so I can't install from > it. I obviously must have changed something, because it used to work fine, > but I can't remember what changed in that time period except for upgrading > Mozilla. > > Can anyone suggest what I might try to find out what is causing the process > to disappear? I'm reluctant to upgrade Samba. > -- > Roger > > You're only young once, > but you can be immature forever! > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message