running 2.05a on red hat 6.1 I get a lot of these in my logs: smbd/process.c:timeout_processing(868) Reloading services after SIGHUP. Can anyone shed any light on this?
[Drenning Bruce]> running 2.05a on red hat 6.1 > > I get a lot of these in my logs: > > smbd/process.c:timeout_processing(868) Reloading services after SIGHUP.What is "a lot"? It's perfectly normal to get these about once a day. I've never used Red Hat Linux, but my guess is that you have a cron job running every now and then that sends a SIGHUP to all your important daemons, to make them close and reopen their log files -- important for log rotation. (If the program never closes and reopens its log file, it is hard or impossible to replace that file with a new, empty file (so you can move and/or compress the old file) without race conditions that cause you to lose log entries.) Peter
by "a lot" I mean 8 to 10 an hour.> [Drenning Bruce] > > running 2.05a on red hat 6.1 > > > > I get a lot of these in my logs: > > > > smbd/process.c:timeout_processing(868) Reloading services after SIGHUP. > > What is "a lot"? It's perfectly normal to get these about once a day. > > I've never used Red Hat Linux, but my guess is that you have a cron job > running every now and then that sends a SIGHUP to all your important > daemons, to make them close and reopen their log files -- important for > log rotation. (If the program never closes and reopens its log file, > it is hard or impossible to replace that file with a new, empty file > (so you can move and/or compress the old file) without race conditions > that cause you to lose log entries.) > > Peter