a twist of samba pid plz

pinnockio · Apprentice Joined: 08 Jun 2002 Posts: 162

Hello,

I'm experiencing a really odd thing with samba. When I do ps -C smbd I get process id (random example) 1703 (and this is also the pid shown in /var/run/samba/smbd.pid); but I can't use samba! If I start to restart it through /etc/init/samba restart, I get: start-stop-daemon: warning: failed to kill 1705: No such process.

The strange thing is that (even when I delete the file /var/run/samba/smbd.pid), there always seems to bee a difference of 2 between the pid shown by the command ps -C smbd and the pid shown by /etc/init.d/samba restart,... .

The weird thing is that this error only seems to happen at initial startup (but when I kill the daemon, do /etc/init.d/samba zap and restart, it works fine, but I don't wan't to restart it manually everytime).

Kind regards,

A belgian Gentoo user

ezman · Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2004 5:00 pm Post subject:

Same situation here, I think mine has mostly to do that sometimes I am on dhcp lease when using samba server from my machine.
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pinnockio · Apprentice Joined: 08 Jun 2002 Posts: 162

Problem solved when moving to kernel 2.6.5