[CentOS] Odd failure of smbd to start from init.d - CentOS 5.4
Whit Blauvelt
whit at transpect.com
Fri May 21 14:44:27 UTC 2010
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 10:04:36AM -0400, Ross Walker wrote:
> By any chance did someone add smbd to xinetd?
>
> If so then xinetd has the port open and the smbd process will not bind.
Nope. Not sure that would explain why a slight difference in how it's
invoked, through the same init.d script, makes the difference in whether it
runs. That is:
sh /etc/init.d/smb start (and "/usr/sbin/smbd -D")
which always works from console, differs from
/etc/init.d/smb start (and "service smb start" too)
which doesn't ever work on this box, how? This is when smb starts with
"#!/bin/sh" anyway. Only thing I can figure is that there may be a subtle
difference in timing, a slowing down just enough to make the startup
tolerant of hardware that's right on the margin. There's no significant
difference (if any) in envars.
After questioning everything else - including close comparison to some
Redhat 5.4 systems with smbd starting fine - by elimination the hardware
seems the only thing left to question. But I'm still open to ideas.
Thanks,
Whit
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