It occurs to me, though, that if you're not running the daemons as daemons, then the server won't announce itself on the network, and you'd have to do more work to get to it then if you simply run it from the init scripts.
"Jesus Ortega (a.k.a. Nitebirdz)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Bob Hartung wrote: > > > Hi, > > I am strying to start Samba-2.2.3a from xinetd.d. I have constructed > > files per instructions. Now after restarting with /etc/init.d/xinetd > > restart should I see both smbd and nmbd after doing a 'ps -ef | grep mbd' > > or is the smbd only called if needed? > > > > If the latter, okay. If the former then I'll have to dig deeper. > > > > TIA > > > > Bob > > > > > Bob, > > > I never configured Samab to run from xinetd, but I did configure it to run > from inetd in the old days and everything worked just fine. I don't see > why it shouldn't work with xinetd too. Your guess is correct. The daemons > won't be running unless a client tries to use them via a socket connection. > At that point, xinetd will launch the smbd and nmbd processes if the whole > thing is configured right. > > > > -- > Nitebirdz > > Mozilla--> http://www.mozilla.org/ > Linux XFS--> http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org, or http://dogpound2.citadel.org:2000 _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
