I have problems with a samba server. It's almost stable since the last upgrade, but there are many smbd processes owned by root, instead by the user. This is a RedHat-7.3 server. There were many smbd processes running, I once saw almost 50 for the same user. This was growing untill we had to restart samba. I also tried to build the samba-2.2.8 rpm but it was too unstable in this system. Since the last upgrade to samba-2.2.7a from RedHat, the only strange behaviour has been that there are many smbd processes owned by root. I check the entries from smbstatus, some smbd are owned by the user, but many are from root. Is this normal ? smbd -S entries : 125 smbd owned by root : 49 other smbd : 12 current versions: redhat 7.3 kernel-2.4.18-27.7.x samba-2.2.7-3.7.3 Thank you for your time.
Hy.> Since the last upgrade to samba-2.2.7a from RedHat, the only > strange behaviour has been that there are many smbd processes > owned by root.I had almost the same problem, and it was caused because I recompiled samba. I had an installed and running version of samba, set up with debian's apt-get. I dled samba and recompile it, and forget to get it out from inet.d.conf. Also I had to uninstall the original, after that, I made a make clean on samba, revised the /etc/services, /etc/inetd.conf, and also used the following options when compiled: "--sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin " ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/