If you are starting the daemons with inetd, they won't run as standalone daemons, since inetd runs them on demand. Inetd will hog the sockets (ports).
I thought Redhat used xinetd? Joel On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 10:09:23PM -0400, murray zangen wrote: > Hi, > > I've been running Samba successfully for several years. > > I tried running Samba on a new computer under Redhat 7.3 using a test > smb.conf where testparm shows no errors. Running "smb start" runs > properly i.e. starts smbd and nmbd, but after a few seconds both > programs stop running (running "ps aux| grep smbd" shows job running, > running "ps...." again shows that it stopped. Running "smb status" > twice after staring smb confirms that they ran for a few seconds and > then stopped. > > All necessary changes were made to /etc/services and inetd.conf. > > Any ideas? > > > Thanks > > > Murray Zangen [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba