samba - Nov 2001 - Auto starting the daemon in redhat

I am having a problem with the auto running of the samba daemons in red hat

I got the smb script from the site and place it as /etc/rc.c/init.d/smb

Then I set up symbolic links in the places it told me.  

I used lm -s ..... for the links

I went into the place where one link was and I use colors to signify what
something is. All of the links are in cyan except for the one created which is
white with a red bg.

I set them up as symbolic links, was I supposed to do hard links - i.e. just use
ln ... (not -s)

It said symbolic links!

Thanks in advance

On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Jon wrote:
> I am having a problem with the auto running of the samba daemons in red hat
> 
> I got the smb script from the site and place it as /etc/rc.c/init.d/smb
> 
> Then I set up symbolic links in the places it told me.  
> 
> I used lm -s ..... for the links
Hopefully it was ln -s.......
> I went into the place where one link was and I use colors to signify what
something is. All of the links are in cyan except for the one created which is
white with a red bg.
Then you did not get them right. If you are using the redhat rpms all you need
to do
is as root run ntsysv and select smb. this will make the links for you in
the current runlevel.
> I set them up as symbolic links, was I supposed to do hard links - i.e.
just use ln ... (not -s)
> 
> It said symbolic links!
and that is correct. If you are not using the redhat init script then cd to the
directory
you want the link in. Do "ln -s ../init.d/smb S91smb" That should do
it. This assumes you
put the script in /etc/rc.d/init.d or /etc/init.d/ they are both the same if you
have
redhat 7.0 or later.

HTH,


-- 
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tdiehl@rogueind.com	of Your Dissatisfying Relationships is You.

> I am having a problem with the auto running of the samba daemons in red hat
> 
> I got the smb script from the site and place it as /etc/rc.c/init.d/smb
Um.  Which site would that be?  And does the script work fine when you
execute it like this:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/smb start
/etc/rc.d/init.d/smb stop

and so on?
> Then I set up symbolic links in the places it told me.  
> 
> I used lm -s ..... for the links
> 
> I went into the place where one link was and I use colors to signify what
something is. All of the links are in cyan except for the one created which is
white with a red bg.
White with red background in redhat, by default, means it's a broken
symbolic link (AKA "dangling link").  So the link was created
incorrectly;
the target (the "real" file, the smb script, that you are linking to)
was
probably specified incorrectly.

When using ln you should get into the habbit of specifying the full path
of the "real" file (the "source file") you are linking to. 
For example:

# ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb S30smb

creates a link called S30smb, in the current directory, which points to
/etc/rc.d/init.d/smb .  You could use absolute paths for the source file
but it is easier to screw these up.
> I set them up as symbolic links, was I supposed to do hard links - i.e.
just use ln ... (not -s)
Nope.
> It said symbolic links!
And it meant it!  ;-)
> Thanks in advance

kw

Forget about the links and the colors, try using chkconfig. Not sure what
version og Red Hat this showed up in (I'm using 7.1).

Something like "chkconfig --level 35 smb on" tells Red Hat to start
the smb
service when entering run levels 3 and 5.

HTH,
Doug

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> Subject: Auto starting the daemon in redhat
>
>
> I am having a problem with the auto running of the samba daemons
> in red hat
>
> I got the smb script from the site and place it as /etc/rc.c/init.d/smb
>
> Then I set up symbolic links in the places it told me.
>
> I used lm -s ..... for the links
>
> I went into the place where one link was and I use colors to
> signify what something is. All of the links are in cyan except
> for the one created which is white with a red bg.
>
> I set them up as symbolic links, was I supposed to do hard links
> - i.e. just use ln ... (not -s)
>
> It said symbolic links!
>
> Thanks in advance
>
>
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On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Jon wrote:
> I am having a problem with the auto running of the samba daemons in red hat
> 
> I got the smb script from the site and place it as /etc/rc.c/init.d/smb
> 
> Then I set up symbolic links in the places it told me.  
> 
> I used lm -s ..... for the links
> 
> I went into the place where one link was and I use colors to signify what
something is. All of the links are in cyan except for the one created which is
white with a red bg.
> 
> I set them up as symbolic links, was I supposed to do hard links - i.e.
just use ln ... (not -s)
> 
> It said symbolic links!
> 
> Thanks in advance
Remove all the symbolic links you created.
edit /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb
Lokk for the like that begins in:
# chkconfig:

Make it something like:
# chkconfig: 345 91 35

Then run :
# chkconfig --del smb         # remove any trailing symlinks
# chkconfig --add smb         # setup the correct symlinks
# chkconfig --list smb        # show us?

You should see something like:
smb             0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off

This means that samba will start in run levels 3 4 5 and will turn off if
you switch to run levels 0 1 2 6.

This is usefull  for making sure that your changes to smb.conf are read.
service smb restart

It _will_ kill the service tho so make sure that wont upset anyone.


Yours Tony.

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