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

Fri May 21 15:56:21 UTC 2010
Ross Walker <rswwalker at gmail.com>

On May 21, 2010, at 11:24 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> On 5/21/2010 9:44 AM, Whit Blauvelt wrote:
>> 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.
>
> The only difference here 'should' be that explicitly running 'sh' will
> invoke your own shell aliases and search PATH to execute sh, where if
> you omit it you'll get the #!/bin/sh interpreter specified in the  
> script
> itself.  Is there anything in your aliases or anything before /bin in
> PATH where the working shell might be found?
>
> Or, perhaps this difference is coincidental and something is randomly
> killing smbd.  You might be able to see something if you comment out  
> the
> nmbd startup in the script and
> strace -f /etc/init.d/smb start
> but it will only be useful if smbd dies and you can see a failing  
> system
> call causing it.

Or maybe a corrupt env file in /etc/profile.d?

-Ross