From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 4 23:43: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE6DE37B400 for ; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 23:42:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from w2xo.pgh.pa.us (18.gibs5.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.184.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 101FB43E31 for ; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 23:42:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by w2xo.pgh.pa.us (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g656gma55401; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 06:42:48 GMT (envelope-from durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us) Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 06:42:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Jim Durham To: Roger Merritt Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Samba disappears? In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20020704075143.007a27b0@stjohn.stjohn.ac.th> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, Roger Merritt wrote: > At 11:28 PM 7/3/02 +1000, you wrote: > >On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Roger Merritt wrote: > > > >> I've just discovered that in the last month or so one of my servers is > >> behaving strangely. The Samba daemon starts up normally, but then the > >> process disappears. When I run 'ps -aux | grep smb' the only process that > > > >Try 'ps auxww | grep smb' and you may see the processes. Without the ww > >the process names outputed by ps may be truncated due to your terminal > >width. > > Samba will do this if there is a name service problem. Can it look up it's own address? I've always had luck with 'ps ax | grep mbd'. It normally shows smbd and 2 nmbd's . -Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message