Re: Starting SMB on FC4

From: lensman (j.o.williams_at_comcast.net)
Date: 08/13/05


Date: 12 Aug 2005 17:41:40 -0700


seawolf@scssi.org wrote:
> Hi, i am getting the same error (Starting SMB services:
> /etc/init.d/functions: line 83: 3591 Aborted $nice $* ). I am on
> Fedora Core 4. I, too, can run (start) smbd directly. I believe,
> "/etc/rc.d/init.d/smb start" initially worked for me,
> "out-of-the-box".
>
> any new findings?
>
> I read the samba_selinux manpage (which, by the way, exists on FC4 but
> not on FC3) and tried a few things based on it, like :
>
> chcon -t samba_share_t /mysharedpath
>
> but to no avail
>
> If anyone has a clue, please kindly share (NPI :-)

Interesting, I get the same error. But if I run:

sh -x /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb start

it WORKS. This sounds like a bug in bash or sh. The -x flag
tells the shell to echo each line as it is executed.

J.O Williams
>
> TIA
> andrew



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