On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 03:12:02PM -0400, Ross Walker wrote: > What happens when you manually try to execute the above commands? # /bin/bash -c 'ulimit -S -c 0 >/dev/null 2>&1 ; smbd -D' Not sure what that might in theory do, but it works: # ps aux | grep mbd | grep -v grep root 7870 0.0 0.0 135952 2592 ? Ss 15:46 0:00 smbd -D root 7871 0.0 0.0 135952 1408 ? S 15:46 0:00 smbd -D Whit