From: /m 



For starters, in the *nix world, man (the manual command) is your friend.

  man ps

will tell you all manner of info regarding the parameters you should use to
convince the ps command to show you what you want.

Some distributions also have an  info command, but I usually stay with man,
since it is on all the distributions and it has what I need.


  /m


On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 16:57:51 -0700, Randall Parker

wrote:

>/m wrote:
>> To see if samba is running, run the ps command (under FreeBSD, is use
>> the command   ps aux ) and look for programs called:  smbd  and  nmbd
>
>The ps command shows a very short list of processes, fewer than I know
>are running. But I can bring up the System Monitor and see the complete
>list. The smbd and nmbd process names do not show up there.
>
>I am wondering if I have Samba on my machine without having it
>configured to run.
>
>Otherwise, should I try to get Samba from the Fedora site or from some
>general site? Does one typically try to get a program as built for one's
>particular distribution?
>
>Okay, I ran locate and got what looks like promising stuff:
>
>[randall{at}localhost ~]$ locate smbd
>/selinux/booleans/allow_smbd_anon_write
>/selinux/booleans/smbd_disable_trans
>/usr/sbin/smbd
>/usr/share/doc/samba-3.0.23/htmldocs/manpages/smbd.8.html
>/usr/share/man/man8/smbd.8.gz
>[randall{at}localhost ~]$ ls /usr/sbin/smbd
>/usr/sbin/smbd
>[randall{at}localhost ~]$ ls -l /usr/sbin/smbd
>-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3802804 Jul 12 12:58 /usr/sbin/smbd
>[randall{at}localhost ~]$
>
>Is that /usr/sbin/smbd the thing I want?
>
>Is there a proper way to configure it to run on start-up? I mean, do you
>just put it in some file that has a list of processes to start up on the
>load of the OS? If so, which file?
>
>Or does Gnome or some other tool have an admin interface to interact
>with to do this sort of thing?
>
>>
>>
>> Those are the two programs I see for my install of Samba.  You might
>> also want to run the  locate  command to see if they are on disk
>> (presuming your locate updater has run already).
>>
>>  /m

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