Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 01:51:14 -0300 From: "Mauro" <mdrjr@mdrjr.net> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Roger Merritt" <mcrogerm@stjohn.ac.th> Subject: Re: Disappearing Daemon? Message-ID: <05f701c223df$97ee4810$0200000a@mdrjrathgot32h> References: <3.0.6.32.20020705114443.007aa820@stjohn.stjohn.ac.th>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger Merritt" <mcrogerm@stjohn.ac.th> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 1:44 AM Subject: Disappearing Daemon? > I've posted this question before under the subject, "Samba disappears", but > perhaps the subject title made it seem like the question was specifically > about Samba. I don't think that's it. Something is causing the process to > vanish after it's been started. > > For the last couple of weeks (I'm not sure when it started) I've been > having a problem running Samba. The program is started as a daemon on > boot-up, but then the process seems to disappear. I've tried starting it > manually, and the same thing happens. It's baffling, because it had been > running fine for the last three or four years. I can't figure out what > changed on the server, but something must have. > > I'm running Freebsd 4.5-STABLE: > FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE #0: Wed Feb 27 08:29:05 ICT 2002 > > and have upgraded to Samba 2.2.5, but the behavior was observed when I was > still running 2.0.7 (yesterday). > > The behavior I see when I try it manually is: > [root@kepler:~]# /usr/local/sbin/smbd -D > [root@kepler:~]# ps -aux | grep smbd > root 92332 0.0 0.9 1036 528 p0 R+ 11:13AM 0:00.01 grep smbd > [root@kepler:~]# kill -HUP `cat /var/run/smbd.pid` > su: kill: (92040) - No such pid Any logs?! > > so the process is being started, and then just vanishes. I've tried running > it with debug level set to 3 or 4, but nothing shows up in the log except > smbd starting and loading some parameters. None of the Win98 computers on > the subnet can see > > Can anyone offer any suggestions about what I can investigate next? I've > never heard of behavior like this. > -- > Roger > > > 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
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