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

Tue May 25 21:47:00 UTC 2010
Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com>

At Tue, 25 May 2010 17:26:26 -0400 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote:

> 
> Following up, that appears to be /var/cache/samba/messages.tdb it can't
> intialize. Which sits there with the same permissions on the not-working
> CentOS 5.4 systems as on the working Redhat 5.4 systems. Now what could
> create a problem for that when started from "/etc/init.d/smb start" but not
> from "sh /etc/init.d/smb start" or "smbd -D"?
> 
> All ideas are welcome. I'm seeing with the Google that Samba has long been
> fragile about this stuff - but haven't found the fix yet.

Was this file *copied* from the Redhat 5.4 system(s) or created fresh
under CentOS?


> 
> Whit
> 
> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 04:56:30PM -0400, Whit Blauvelt wrote:
> 
> > May 24 15:29:12 xyz smbd[2674]: [2010/05/24 15:29:12, 0] lib/messages.c:message_init(132) 
> > May 24 15:29:12 xyz smbd[2674]:   ERROR: Failed to initialise messages database 
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