From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 6 9: 5:24 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 6F28637B400 for ; Sat, 6 Jul 2002 09:05:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from viefep15-int.chello.at (viefep15-int.chello.at [213.46.255.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E5A243E31 for ; Sat, 6 Jul 2002 09:05:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ant@overclockers.at) Received: from Deadcell.ant ([212.17.108.240]) by viefep15-int.chello.at (InterMail vM.5.01.03.06 201-253-122-118-106-20010523) with ESMTP id <20020706160518.PEVZ1259.viefep15-int.chello.at@Deadcell.ant>; Sat, 6 Jul 2002 18:05:18 +0200 Received: from Deadcell.ant (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Deadcell.ant (8.12.4/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g66G5ILu060910; Sat, 6 Jul 2002 18:05:18 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ant@Deadcell.ant) Received: (from ant@localhost) by Deadcell.ant (8.12.4/8.12.4/Submit) id g66G55di060909; Sat, 6 Jul 2002 18:05:05 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2002 18:05:05 +0200 From: Andreas Ntaflos To: Roger Merritt Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Samba disappears? Message-ID: <20020706160505.GA56194@Deadcell.ant> References: <3.0.6.32.20020703091839.007f6180@stjohn.stjohn.ac.th> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20020703091839.007f6180@stjohn.stjohn.ac.th> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i 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, Jul 03, 2002 at 09:18:39AM +0700, 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 > 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 once had a problem like this; I had changed the hostname of the box samba was running on but forgot to edit /etc/hosts. Once I put the correct hostname in there, samba behaved normally again. Just a thought. HTH regards -- Andreas "ant" Ntaflos ant@overclockers.at Vienna, AUSTRIA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message