[CentOS] Odd failure of smbd to start from init.d - CentOS 5.4

Whit Blauvelt whit at transpect.com
Tue May 25 23:39:11 UTC 2010


On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 06:23:02PM -0400, Todd Denniston wrote:
> I have not been following this thread closely, but perhaps Robert was pointing at SELINUX and the
> need to keep the SE permissions intact as you copy/edit the file.
> 
> i.e. you may need to:
> A) restorecon /etc/init.d/smb and any other samba files that you have copied/edited.

It doesn't work with the smb file which is virgin, as installed by CentOS.

> B) look in one of the /var/log/ files for selinux messages when you are starting samba.

There are no lines in any log file with both "selinux" combined with either
"mbd" or "samba". Plus selinux is just in advisory mode if not specifically
configured to be in the way, isn't it?

> Good luck.

I'll take it if I can. Thanks.

Whit



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