freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 3, Issue 23

[Max Guernsey]

> Message: 15
> Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 01:47:23 +0100
> From: Daniel Bye <dan at slightlystrange.org>
> Subject: Re: Newbie needs help.
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
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> On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 05:13:58PM -0700, Max Guernsey wrote:
> > I've installed FreeBSD 5.0 and when the system reboots I 
> keep getting
> > 
> > ... inetd[488]: cannot execute /usr/local/sbin/nmbd: No 
> such file or 
> > directory ... Inetd[489]: cannot execute 
> /usr/local/sbin/nmbd: No such 
> > file or directory
> > ... Inetd[490]: cannot execute /usr/local/sbin/nmbd: No such file or
> > directory
> > 
> > 
> > And so on.
> > 
> > I tried to comment out the start of inetd, line 741 of /etc/rc but 
> > that just caused some other service to choke on 
> /usr/local/sbin/nmbd.  
> > Any idea, what's wrong or what I can do to fix the problem?
> 
> Yow!  Don't edit /etc/rc!  It controls system startup, and as 
> you found, editing it can break stuff unpredictably.
> 
> Instead, look in /etc/inetd.conf - this controls what 
> services are available through inetd.  Look for the line that 
> starts nmbd, and simply comment it out, then restart inetd 
> with something like
> 
>  # kill -HUP `cat /var/run/inetd.pid`
> 
> If you have installed Samba (of which nmbd is a constituent 
> element), you should check that the install was clean, and 
> edit the path in inetd.conf to point to the correct location, 
> so that when inetd receives an nmbd request, it can start the 
> program properly.  (Although if you are using Samba, you 
> should really start smbd and nmbd in standalone mode to help 
> reduce startup times for each new request.)
> 
> HTH
> 
> Dan
> 
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Dan,

Thanks for responding.

Is there a way that I can turn off the messages from inetd?  You get two
or three messages and then there is a 5 or 10 second pause.  I hardly
have time to do anything.  Editing a file is haphazard at best.  As the
messages keep coming and destroy the the display of the file.

How do I check to see if the Samba install was clean??

What do you mean by starting smbd and nmbd in standalone mode?

Thanks,
Max

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