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

Arun Bhalla bhalla at uiuc.edu
Thu Aug 19 02:29:16 CDT 2004


Clint Popetz writes:
> 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 t
> o
> > > > 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

Aha!  Very good.  I didn't expect the /usr/local/etc/rc.d/, perhaps
because /usr/local would make too much sense. :)

Arun


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