Paul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : how do I kill samba when it is loaded from inetd? .. smbd doesn't even : appear on ps -aux unless a service is being used.
As a couple of Debian fellows already said, if ps -ax does not show any nmbd or smbd processes then Samba is not running. However, since it is running from inetd, traffic in UDP ports 137-139 is being listened to (by inetd) and any traffic in these ports will trigger nmbd or smbd (depending on the port). If there are any process running, you can kill them as usual with kill. However, my experience tells me that as soon as you kill nmbd another nmbd process will be initiated by inetd because traffic will trigger that. So, you will always have a nmbd running, unless you unplug your Samba server from the network or shutdown all machines (other Samba servers or any Windows box) that broadcast NetBIOS stuff. If you don't want to have any nmbd or smbd processes at all, disable the corresponding lines in /etc/inetd.conf and kill -HUP the inetd process. New releases of the Samba package (that I started to maintain) will have as an option to run Samba from inetd or as daemons. When run as daemons it is easier to shut down Samba, just do "/etc/init.d/samba stop". See ya! E.- -- Eloy A. Paris Information Technology Department Rockwell Automation de Venezuela Telephone: +58-2-9432311 Fax: +58-2-9431645 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
