samba - Aug 2002 - stuck in a loop?

Hi Everyone, 

Just wondering if anyone has seen anything similar to this:

Jul 28 21:57:30 GATEWAY smbd[6681]:   open_directory: unable to stat name proc
/self/cwd/proc/self/cwd/proc/self/cwd/proc/self/cwd/proc/self/cwd/proc/self/
cwd/
proc/self/cwd/proc/self/cwd/proc/self/cwd/proc/self/cwd/proc/self/cwd/proc/s
elf/
cwd/proc/self/cwd/proc/self/cwd/proc/self/cwd/proc/
Jul 28 21:57:30 GATEWAY smbd[6681]: [2002/07/28 21:57:30, 0]
smbd/open.c:open_di
rectory(1110)
Jul 28 21:57:30 GATEWAY smbd[6681]:   open_directory: unable to stat name proc
/self/cwd/proc/self/cwd/proc/self/cwd/proc/self/cwd/proc/self/cwd/proc/self/
cwd/
proc/self/cwd/proc/self/cwd/proc/self/cwd/proc/self/cwd/proc/self/cwd/proc/s
elf/
cwd/proc/self/cwd/proc/self/cwd/proc/self/cwd/proc/
Jul 28 21:57:30 GATEWAY smbd[6681]: [2002/07/28 21:57:30, 0]
smbd/open.c:open_di
rectory(1110)

...<message repeats a kagillion times>...

Within a week's time of this stuff in the log (which stops eventually), all
the samba (2.2.5) shares started to lock up both the client workstations and
the server (Rhat 7.3).  Reboot seemed to stabilize the system, but this was
the first reboot in over 3 months with no problems up until now.

Weird.

Thanks, 

Jim Kuo
jkuo@musictelecom.com

On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, James Kuo wrote:
> Hi Everyone, 
> 
> Just wondering if anyone has seen anything similar to this:
> 
> Jul 28 21:57:30 GATEWAY smbd[6681]:   open_directory: unable to stat name
> proc
>
/self/cwd/proc/self/cwd/proc/self/cwd/proc/self/cwd/proc/self/cwd/proc/self/
> cwd/
>
proc/self/cwd/proc/self/cwd/proc/self/cwd/proc/self/cwd/proc/self/cwd/proc/s
> elf/
> cwd/proc/self/cwd/proc/self/cwd/proc/self/cwd/proc/
I'm guessing that /proc is accessible from some share?
You probably shouldn't export / directly, if that is what you are doing.
Or set "follow symlinks = no" in the smb.conf.

I think you have a client that is trying to search things in it and finds
an infinite recursion of symlinks (look at the contents of /proc). There
are limits on the length of a pathname so stat() will eventually fail.

/Urban