Daniel Bye wrote: > On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 03:31:02PM -0500, Ugo Bellavance wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm rather new to FreeBSD (I usually use linux and I'm trying Fbsd. I >> upgraded my samba port yesterday, but after, I couldn't reconnect to it. >> I found out that the upgrade (using cvsup/portupgrade) removed smb.conf >> and stopped smb and cups? Why is it this way? It is not the only port >> that gets stopped on an upgrade. Is that normal? Shouldn't it at least >> try to restart? > > portupgrade (and portmanager) will try to restart upgraded daemons > (smbd, exim, or whatever) in order that they run the new code.
Maybe it tried, but the config for samba disappeared. I don't know why it didn't restart cups though. > As far > as I am aware, an upgraded port should not touch an existing config > file. Did you upgrade from version 2 to version 3? This might account > for it, but I can't remeber if I had similar problems making that > particular journey. No, it was just a security upgrade. > > Anyway, for clues, you can try starting samba directly: > > # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/samba.sh start > > and see what debuggibg you get. I got it now, I copied the samba conf file, restarted cups, then samba. > > Welcome to FreeBSD, btw. Hope you stick around! Hard to tell. Very different from linux. I try to learn FreeBSD since it seems interesting, but I'm meeting many problems that I don't get in linux. For example, with yum, up2date or apt, such an upgrade would have been w/o issue. > > HTH, > > Dan > -- Ugo -> Please don't send a copy of your reply by e-mail. I read the list. -> Please avoid top-posting, long signatures and HTML, and cut the irrelevant parts in your replies. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"