On May 21, 2010, at 3:48 PM, Whit Blauvelt <whit at transpect.com> wrote: > 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 > Idea wa to see if there was a ulimit set that is preventing smbd from starting. Need to look back at the debug output to see if it included a restrictive ulimit... -Ross