[Imc-tech] dewey unavailable to the staffing computer:

Clint Popetz clint at cpopetz.com
Wed Aug 18 22:19:51 CDT 2004


On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 07:34:25PM -0500, Arun Bhalla wrote:
> 
> Clint Popetz writes:
> > On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 04:09:13PM -0500, Sascha Meinrath wrote:
> > > could someone stop by the IMC and figure out why dewey is inaccessible to
> > > the staffing computer.  we were able to backup our Quickbooks account to
> > > dewey yesterday; but for some reason, it's not working today.
> > 
> > It should work now; smbd got a SIGSEGV and died this morning.  It did
> > that back in April too; I have no idea why.  
 
> I'm not as familiar with sysadminning NetBSD, and I couldn't find any
> startup scripts for Samba on dewey, so for others' edification (e.g. Sascha),
> I did this:
> 
> dewey# ps -auxw | grep '[sn]mbd'
>         [then I killed those PIDs]
> dewey# kill PID1 PID2
>         [then I restarted Samba]
> dewey# /usr/sbin/smbd -D
> dewey# /usr/sbin/nmbd -D

For future reference, it's:

su-2.05# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/samba.sh stop
su-2.05# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/samba.sh start


				-Clint


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