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

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 5:41 PM, Whit Blauvelt whit@transpect.com wrote:

More data:

"service smb restart" - does NOT get smbd running (although shows "OK")

"sh /etc/init.d/smb restart" - DOES get smbd running

The "service" man page claims the only environment variables it passes are LANG and TERM. But that can't be the key, since

"/etc/init.d/smb restart" - does NOT get smbd running (although shows "OK")

For that matter

"bash /etc/init.d/smb restart" - DOES get smbd running

Changing the first line of init.d/smb to /bin/bash from /bin/sh changes all this not at all.

What the heck can this be?

The service scripts can check for lock files. Do you have any stale locks in /var/run/subsys?