On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Brice Verbit wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am very new to the Redhat / Samba scene. I need to have Samba startup
> automatically. I am running RedHat 7.1. Can anyone assist me with a
script
> or advise? I would appreciate it.
Please use the samba@samba.org list for posting usage questions. Or in
this case perhaps a RH user list would be an even better place.
If you are using the RH samba packages as installed with RH7.1 it should
have installed a startup script as /etc/init.d/smb. You can then start
samba manually with:
/etc/init.d/smb start
Making that automatic can be done with the chkconfig tool.
Verify that the RH tools agree that it is installed ok with:
chkconfig --list smb
It should print a line like this:
smb 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
If it says 3:on 4:on 5:on then it should start automatically already.
If it is on but doesn't start, check the logfiles for errors. That would
probably be a misconfigured smb.conf file.
If it is not listed, try to add it with:
chkconfig --add smb
Then turn it on with:
chkconfig smb on
Finally verify that it is now on for runlevels 3, 4 and 5.
chkconfig --list smb
chkconfig manages the rc#.d dirs in /etc/rc.d, where the # refers to the
runlevel in your /etc/inittab.
'man chkconfig' for details. And perhaps also 'man init'.
/Urban
