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

On 5/25/2010 5:09 PM, Whit Blauvelt wrote:

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 06:05:34PM -0400, Whit Blauvelt wrote:

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where "smb" is RH's version and /etc/init.d/smb is Cent's. I can't quite imagine that a difference between overwriting or appending path.txt is at the root of what I'm seeing though.

Correction: that wasn't a virgin version of Cent's. More in a moment.

Try changing: daemon smbd $SMBDOPTIONS to strace -f smbd $SMBDOPTIONS and run it in the way that fails. If there's not enough left on the screen to see why it died, try strace -f smbd $SMBOPTION 2>/tmp/smblog and look at the file reading backwards to find a fatal error.

I'm still very curious about why it would work when run with 'sh'.