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

Fri May 21 04:16:17 UTC 2010
JohnS <jses27 at gmail.com>

On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 22:22 -0400, Tom H wrote:
> 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).
---
Yes you would be right.  I had thoughts maybe the file was not
executable as in "M" .  Was what I was looking for to fast.  Couldn't
really remember, and  should have looked it up like I just did.

John