Peter Eckhardt
2003-Aug-15 15:41 UTC
[Fwd: Re: [Samba] Frequent crashes - drives me nuts .....]
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Samba] Frequent crashes - drives me nuts ..... Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 14:49:23 +0200 From: Peter Eckhardt <peter@dadi-linux.de> To: Wolfram Quester <wquester@mittelerde.physik.uni-konstanz.de> References: <3F3C93A7.6020502@dadi-linux.de> <20030815123417.GA16807@pippin> Wolfram Quester wrote:> Hi Peter, > > >>Might it be possible that a windows box is sending bad packets which >>make samba die ? We have a suspicion that samba always dies when a >>certain Win 98 box logs in to the Workgroup. >> >>It's strange that the system runs rock solid during the day and always >>dies in the morning. > > > To me this looks like a cron-job trying to restart samba, cleaning /tmp > or /var/run or ...unfortunately not ....> > Perhaps SuSE wants to use inetd, but you want to start/stop samba via > an init-script...? >nope. it's started via an init script. i tried running via xinetd also. i forgot to mention that. in the beginning i suspected it's a problem with nmbd only. i configured nmbd to start from xinetd. that worked. i could kill nmbd and it always came back up without problems. except ... in the morning, nmbd did not die but simply did not react anymore. After i killed it smbd died. After both were restarted things worked ok until the next morning.> Does the Win 98 box run an at-job at a certain time? >nope. it's just trying to process a login script. But usually it can not locate the PDC because nmbd is dead .... only in the morning of course. No way to reproduce the problem during the day.> regards, > > Wolfi >Thanks a lot Peter -- dadi-linux www.dadi-linux.de Peter Eckhardt Fon: +49 6071 951256 Weberstr. 36B Fax: +49 6071 951257 64846 Gro?-Zimmern peter.eckhardt@dadi-linux.de -- dadi-linux www.dadi-linux.de Peter Eckhardt Fon: +49 6071 951256 Weberstr. 36B Fax: +49 6071 951257 64846 Gro?-Zimmern peter.eckhardt@dadi-linux.de
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