On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 17:24 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > 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'. > Maybe try an ls -alZ fopr both sh and bash. There may be a suble difference there. If selinux gets in the way for one but not the other there may be something fishy with the selinux settings of the shell (or the /etc/init.d/samba file) Louis