[wplug] Xinetd and up2date

[Arnaud]

I was looking at the bottom of this page
http://hr.uoregon.edu/davidrl/samba/samba-install.html which is a link
off of samba.org's documentation section. When you refer to running it
"standalone" does that refer to running /usr/local/samba/bin/smbd -D and
nmbd -D each time I want to run the server (or doing it with a script)?

Arnaud-

-----Original Message-----
From: wplug-admin at wplug.org [mailto:wplug-admin at wplug.org] On Behalf Of
James O'Kane
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 1:10 PM
To: wplug at wplug.org
Subject: Re: [wplug] Xinetd and up2date


On Wed, 14 May 2003, Arnaud wrote:

> Now that I have samba installed I'm trying to get it to start up as a 
> service. I created a file called samba in /etc/xinetd.d and placed two

> entries in it for "service netbios-ns" and "service netbios-ssn". The 
> entries are configured as shown in the HOWTO, but if I reboot and load

> webmin it tells me that the samba service isn't started. Any ideas?

I thought that the inetd version of samba went away? I could be thinking

of something else. Webmin might also be checking in a different manner 
than what would cause xinetd to start samba. For example, it could be 
checking the running processes for a running smbd and nmbd.
Any special reason to run them via xinetd instead of standalone? Without
the details of your xinetd config files, it's a bit tough. I 
looked at http://ldp.wplug.org/HOWTO/SMB-HOWTO-5.html guessing that was 
the HOWTO you're refering to, but that specifies configuations for
inetd.
 
> Also, Up2date upgraded my kernel from 2.4.20-8 to 2.4.20-9. I want to 
> remove the entry from grub so that the bootloader no longer shows the 
> 2.4.20-8 kernel. Can I accomplish this by removing the entry from 
> grub.conf and removing any 2.4.20-8 files from /boot? Are there any 
> other useless files I should delete?

Doing that should be safe, but might leave traces of the package in the 
rpm database and /lib/modules/<kernelversion>. You could also try 
rpm -e kernel-2.4.20-8

But in matters of the kernel and love, it's best to be very careful and 
have a working boot disk handy just in case.

-james


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