On Jan 25, 2005, at 7:37 AM, Misty Stanley-Jones wrote:
Because our systems typically have uptimes measured
in months rather than days, and it is difficult for me to restart Samba
except as a scheduled task (which I'm afraid to do because there are users
who come in earlier than I do in the AM and users that work later than me in
the PM, and I don't want them having to call me at home :D ),
I restart my samba/cups services at 4:00AM every morning, using the following really, really aggressive script.
#!/usr/bin/perl
system("/sbin/service smb stop");
sleep(3);
system("killall -9 smbd");
sleep(3);
system("killall -9 nmbd");
sleep(3);
system("/sbin/service cups stop");
sleep(3);
system("killall -9 cupsd");
sleep(3);
system("/sbin/service cups start");
sleep(15);
system("/sbin/service smb start");Never had a problem with things not restarting OK, and I've had this scheduled nightly for months. In my experience, samba and cups will crash at some point, so I'd rather do this in attempts to avoid middle of the day type outages, but not everyone has the luxury of little to no users active at 4:00AM, so YMMV.
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David Schlenk
Operating Systems Analyst
Bethel University
Saint Paul, Minnesota
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