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

Fri May 21 02:22:13 UTC 2010
Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com>

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 9:42 PM, John Stan <jses27 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Whit Blauvelt <whit at transpect.com> wrote:
>>> Maybe try "rpm -V samba" to verify all the samba files.  You get any
>>> output then you have problems.
>>
>> I take it this output:
>>
>> # rpm -V samba
>> S.5....T  c /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb
>> S.5....T  c /etc/samba/smbusers
>> .......T  c /etc/sysconfig/samba
>
> I'm not sure but I really think you have the wrong permissions on the
> files ""S""

No, S and T stand for size and time of modification (M,U,G would have
been output for differing mode/user/group; no idea what 5 stands for).