Summary of Samba Daemons and Commands
Content Inside: The smbd program provides Sambaâ s file and printer services, using one TCP/IP
stream and one daemon per client. It is controlled from the default configuration
file, samba_dir/lib/smb.conf, and can be overridden by command-line options.
The configuration file is automatically re-evaluated every minute. If it has changed,
most new options are immediately effective. You can force Samba to immediately
reload the configuration file if you send a SIGHUP to smbd. Reloading the configu-
ration file, however, will not affect any clients that are already connected. To
escape this â grandfatherâ configuration, a client would need to disconnect and
reconnect, or the server itself would have to be restarted, forcing all clients to
reconnect.
Other signals
To shut down a smbd process, send it the termination signal SIGTERM (-15) which
allows it to die gracefully instead of a SIGKILL (-9). To increment the debug log-
ging level of smbd at runtime, send the program a SIGUSR1 signal. To decrement
it at runtime, send the program a SIGUSR2 signal
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