Re: samba lock problem

["C. Falconer" <criggie@ihug.co.nz>]

At 10:31 AM 9/14/00 +0000, you wrote:
> My /var/log/syslog is filing up with lots of:
>
> Sep 14 10:24:16 hurricane nmbd[1753]:   ERROR: nmbd is already running. File
> /var/lock/samba/nmbd.pid exists and process id 1546 is running.
> Sep 14 10:24:16 hurricane inetd[205]: /usr/sbin/tcpd: exit status 0x1
> Sep 14 10:24:16 hurricane nmbd[1754]: connect from 192.168.200.30
> Sep 14 10:24:16 hurricane nmbd[1754]: [2000/09/14 10:24:16, 0]
> lib/pidfile.c:pidfile_create(86)
>
> by the way hurricane is 192.168.200.30
> samba seems to be running ok, this is a new install of potato since the
> upgrade from slink didn't
> Any ideas?

You're running nmbd (part of samba) as a daemon (faster, slightly more 
resource hungry) and also starting it out of inetd.conf.

Then when a connection is detected, inetd spawns a process of nmbd, which 
finds itself already running, and dies with this error.

Put a # in front of the samba lines in /etc/inetd.conf and then   killall 
-HUP inetd


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Criggie