On 5/25/2010 5:09 PM, Whit Blauvelt wrote: > On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 06:05:34PM -0400, Whit Blauvelt wrote: > >> where "smb" is RH's version and /etc/init.d/smb is Cent's. I can't quite >> imagine that a difference between overwriting or appending path.txt is at >> the root of what I'm seeing though. > > Correction: that wasn't a virgin version of Cent's. More in a moment. Try changing: daemon smbd $SMBDOPTIONS to strace -f smbd $SMBDOPTIONS and run it in the way that fails. If there's not enough left on the screen to see why it died, try strace -f smbd $SMBOPTION 2>/tmp/smblog and look at the file reading backwards to find a fatal error. I'm still very curious about why it would work when run with 'sh'. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com