A possible fix for No such process error message when stopping/restarting Samba services using /etc/init.d/smb script file on Red Hat 7.3/8.0 distribs. /etc/init.d/smb: #!/bin/sh # # chkconfig: - 91 35 # description: Starts and stops the Samba smbd and nmbd daemons \ # used to provide SMB network services. # # pidfile: /var/run/samba/smbd.pid # pidfile: /var/run/samba/nmbd.pid # config: /etc/samba/smb.conf NMBDPIDFILE=/var/run/samba/nmbd.pid SMBDPIDFILE=/var/run/samba/smbd.pid
# Source function library. if [ -f /etc/init.d/functions ] ; then . /etc/init.d/functions elif [ -f /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions ] ; then . /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions else exit 0 fi # Avoid using root's TMPDIR unset TMPDIR # Source networking configuration. . /etc/sysconfig/network if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/samba ]; then . /etc/sysconfig/samba fi # Check that networking is up. [ ${NETWORKING} = "no" ] && exit 0 # Check that smb.conf exists. [ -f /etc/samba/smb.conf ] || exit 0 # Check that we can write to it... so non-root users stop here [ -w /etc/samba/smb.conf ] || exit 0 RETVAL=0 start() { KIND="SMB" echo -n $"Starting $KIND services: " daemon smbd $SMBDOPTIONS RETVAL=$? echo KIND="NMB" echo -n $"Starting $KIND services: " daemon nmbd $NMBDOPTIONS RETVAL2=$? echo [ $RETVAL -eq 0 -a $RETVAL2 -eq 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/smb || \ RETVAL=1 return $RETVAL } stop() { KIND="SMB" echo -n $"Shutting down $KIND services: " killproc smbd RETVAL=$? echo KIND="NMB" echo -n $"Shutting down $KIND services: " if [ -s $NMBDPIDFILE ]; then pid=`cat $NMBDPIDFILE` kill -TERM $pid RETVAL2=$? else RETVAL2=1 fi if [ $RETVAL2 = "0" ]; then rm -f $NMBDPIDFILE success else failure fi [ $RETVAL -eq 0 -a $RETVAL2 -eq 0 ] && rm -f /var/lock/subsys/smb echo "" return $RETVAL } restart() { stop start } reload() { echo -n $"Reloading smb.conf file: " killproc smbd -HUP RETVAL=$? echo return $RETVAL } rhstatus() { status smbd status nmbd } case "$1" in start) start ;; stop) stop ;; restart) restart ;; reload) reload ;; status) rhstatus ;; condrestart) [ -f /var/lock/subsys/smb ] && restart || : ;; *) echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|reload|status|condrestart}" exit 1 esac exit $? -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba