A client recently rebooted his RH 6.2 system, and complained that samba
wasn't coming up. I telnetted in and tried starting it via the "service"
script and got errors - then found that even statusing it produced this output:
# service smb status
usage: pidof [ -e ] name ...
pidof -V
-e require exact match for very long names;
skip if the command line is unavailable
-V display version information
smbd is stopped
usage: pidof [ -e ] name ...
pidof -V
-e require exact match for very long names;
skip if the command line is unavailable
-V display version information
nmbd is stopped
Tracing the script showed me the problem lines in /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb were:
pidof -o 3522 -o 3516 -o %PPID -x smbd
pidof -o 3522 -o 3516 -o %PPID -x nmbd
...which are perfectly LEGAL syntax according to the online man pages for
pidof, but which produced the error messages above when run (as root). A
google search showed that other people have gotten this error on RH, but no
one so far as I can tell has posted a solution.
Possibly vital notes: He's apparently got the "psmisc" package installed on
this box, which replaces 'pidof' (aka 'killall5') with its own version that
purportedly more SysV compatible. Could this be the problem, that the
pidof/killall5 from this package has a different syntax than the stock one?
(If so, why has the system worked fine for 10 months this way? And why
would the online manpage not reflect the new, different syntax?)
# pidof -V
pidof from psmisc version 17
# uname -a
Linux xxx.yyy.com 2.2.14-5.0smp #1 SMP Tue Mar 7 20:25:48 EST 2000 i686 unknown
Kindof stumped on this one. Any pointers appreciated.
/David/
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