[brlug-general] problems installing Samba on Fedora Core 5:where's smbd and nmbd?

[-ray]

As far as i know, no RedHat/Fedora distro sets the immutable bit in any 
packages by default (someone correct me if i'm wrong on this).  So if 
someone was just playing around and accidentally set them, it should be 
safe to just chattr -R -i /etc.

If you do actually use the immutable bit on your system, then you may have 
a bigger headache, haha. :)

ray


On Sat, 4 Nov 2006, John Hebert wrote:

> Good info, thanks Ray.
>
> I think I know what the problem is now. I _think_ the install is failing because the files and dirs under /etc have the immutable bit set. Too many root users spoil the server...
>
> Will try to fix this tomorrow and try the install again.
>
> Thanks for everyone's feedback.
>
> John Hebert
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: -ray <ray at ops.selu.edu>
> To: general at brlug.net
> Sent: Friday, November 3, 2006 6:08:04 PM
> Subject: Re: [brlug-general] problems installing Samba on Fedora Core 5:where's smbd and nmbd?
>
>
> Whenever I want to see if an installed rpm package is messed up,
> i use rpm -V.  For instance:
>
> [root at norm home]# rpm -V setup
> missing   c /etc/printcap
> S.5....T  c /etc/profile
>
> Tells me the /etc/printcap file is missing, and some other stuff has
> changed with /etc/profile.  Here's what it looks for (from rpm manpage):
>
>
>        S file Size differs
>        M Mode differs (includes permissions and file type)
>        5 MD5 sum differs
>        D Device major/minor number mismatch
>        L readLink(2) path mismatch
>        U User ownership differs
>        G Group ownership differs
>        T mTime differs
>        C selinux Context differs
>
> John, looks like it doesn't check file attributes, so it wouldn't have
> caught the immutable flag on your files.
>
> ray
>
>
>
> On Fri, 3 Nov 2006, Dustin Puryear wrote:
>
>> Yeah, he *appears* to be missing samba.i386. samba-client and
>> samba-common don't include the server functionality. That said, I
>> don't know why /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb exists if samba isn't installed.
>>
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>> Friday, November 3, 2006, 10:45:55 AM, you wrote:
>>
>>> John,
>>> Did you do #yum install samba or #yum install samba-common  to install
>>> samba?
>>
>>> Karthik
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: John Hebert [mailto:johnahebert at yahoo.com]
>>> Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 9:30 AM
>>> To: general at brlug.net
>>> Subject: Re: [brlug-general] problems installing Samba on Fedora Core
>>> 5:where's smbd and nmbd?
>>
>>> Dustin,
>>
>>> Here are the results:
>>
>>> [root at houlnxfraud01 ~]# service smb start
>>> Syntax OK
>>> Starting SMB services: /bin/bash: smbd: command not found
>>>                                                            [FAILED]
>>> Starting NMB services: /bin/bash: nmbd: command not found
>>>                                                            [FAILED]
>>> [root at houlnxfraud01 ~]# netstat -nlpt | grep smbd
>>> [root at houlnxfraud01 ~]# netstat -nlpt | grep nmbd
>>> [root at houlnxfraud01 ~]# smbclient -L //localhost -N
>>> Error connecting to 127.0.0.1 (Connection refused)
>>> Connection to localhost failed
>>> [root at houlnxfraud01 ~]#
>>
>>
>>> Like I mentioned, samba-common is installed, but the smbd and nmbd binaries
>>> aren't there. ???
>>
>>> [root at houlnxfraud01 ~]# yum list installed | grep samba
>>> samba-client.x86_64                      3.0.23c-1.fc5          installed
>>> samba-common.i386                        3.0.23c-1.fc5          installed
>>
>>> This is Fedora Core 5 on a 64bit box:
>>
>>> [root at houlnxfraud01 ~]# uname -a
>>> Linux houlnxfraud01.uclc.com 2.6.18-1.2200.fc5 #1 SMP Sat Oct 14 16:59:56
>>> EDT 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>
>>> I can't imagine that the released rpm has a bug on it, so I am suspecting my
>>> server has a software config problem.
>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> John Hebert
>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----
>>> From: Dustin Puryear <dustin at puryear-it.com>
>>> To: John Hebert <general at brlug.net>
>>> Sent: Thursday, November 2, 2006 10:46:01 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [brlug-general] problems installing Samba on Fedora Core 5:
>>> where's smbd and nmbd?
>>
>>> What happens when you do:
>>
>>> # service smb start
>>> # netstat -nlpt | grep smbd
>>> # netstat -nlpt | grep nmbd
>>> # smbclient -L //localhost -N
>>
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>>
>>> Thursday, November 2, 2006, 9:13:31 PM, you wrote:
>>
>>>> Howdy,
>>
>>>> I'm trying to install Samba on a FC5 server. Seems like it would be
>>>> very simple with yum ('yum install samba'), but although I get an
>>>> "Complete!" message, I can't find 'smbd' or 'nmbd'. I tried
>>>> 'updatedb' and 'locate smbd' and also 'find / | grep smbd' but still
>>>> no luck. I see that the /etc/samba dir and the init.d scripts were
>>> created.
>>
>>
>>
>>>> I just tried another install using yum with debug and error reporting on:
>>
>>
>>>> 'yum -d 6 -e 1 install samba'
>>
>>
>>>> Here's a partial output from yum:
>>>> ...
>>>>   Installing: initscripts                  ######################### [2/3]
>>>> error: unpacking of archive failed on file /etc/sysconfig/console: cpio:
>>> lsetfilecon
>>>>   Installing: samba
>>>> [3/3]warning: /etc/logrotate.d/samba created as
>>> /etc/logrotate.d/samba.rpmnew
>>>>   Installing: samba
>>>> [3/3]warning: /etc/pam.d/samba created as /etc/pam.d/samba.rpmnew
>>>>   Installing: samba
>>>> [3/3]warning: /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb saved as /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb.rpmorig
>>>>   Installing: samba
>>>> [3/3]warning: /etc/samba/smbusers created as /etc/samba/smbusers.rpmnew
>>>>   Installing: samba                        ######################### [3/3]
>>>> error: unpacking of archive failed on file
>>>> /etc/sysconfig/samba;454ab1bd: cpio: open
>>
>>>> Installed: samba.x86_64 0:3.0.23c-1.fc5
>>>> Dependency Installed: initscripts.x86_64 0:8.31.6-1
>>>> samba-common.x86_64 0:3.0.23c-1.fc5
>>>> Complete!
>>
>>
>>>> I'm pretty sure the *.rpmnew files aren't a problem, but what about the
>>> errors?
>>
>>>> Any ideas how I should approach debugging this?
>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> John Hebert
>>
>>
>>
>>
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