In message <200210031433.06806.mike@cpdist.com>, Video Mike writes:
>Dear NetBSD,
>
>After doing a complete install (not upgrade) of v1.6 NetBSD, I have yet to
>find any bugs.  It is working nicely.  I also installed the latest Samba
>package and it too is working just fine, but, I get the following warning
>messages during bootup just after cron is started:
>
>     /etc/rc: WARNING: $smbd is not set properly
>     /etc/rc: WARNING: $nmbd is not set properly
>
>I have tried to figure this out on my own, and being fairly new to this I
>can't seem to tackle it.  I am starting these daemons from inside rc.local
>and they are as such:
>
>     smbd -D
>     nmbd -D
>
>I had a warning message for mountd also, but, I managed to take care
>of that one.
>
>Again, any help is greatly appreciated.

Newer pkgsrc versions of samba put the startup scripts into /etc/rc.d.  
But all such startup scripts require a config variable to be set to YES 
or NO, either in /etc/defaults/rc.conf (which you shouldn't touch) or
/etc/rc.conf.  The solution, then, is to delete your startup lines from 
rc.local and set the flags if needed.  -D is the default in those 
scripts, so you don't need it.

There's also a metascript called 'samba', which you can use to manually 
start or stop the whole package:

	/etc/rc.d/samba start

or

	/etc/rc.d/samba stop

Since this isn't run by rc, it doesn't require a config variable.


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me)
		http://www.wilyhacker.com ("Firewalls" book)