Thanks to Don Inghram for pointing out to me that the size of the log
file causes the abort and to Lars Appel for pointing out that a patch
exists for this known problem... This list is great!

Rick 'Monday is looking better now' Clark
Senior Analyst
WW&R
Cleveland, Ohio




> Rich,
>    I recently had the same problem, and was pointed on this list to looking
> at my log files, especially log.smb.  If it is over about 5MB it causes a
> stack overflow.  Sure enough, that was my problem.  Purge it and restart the
> Samba jobstreams and hopefully all will be well.
>         Don Inghram, Systems Mgr.
>         The Christian & Missionary Alliance
>         Colorado Springs, CO  (719) 265-2154
>         [log in to unmask]

Lars Appel wrote:
>
> >  **** NATIVE STACK OVERFLOW ABORT: SMBD.SAMBA.SYS
>
> Please check the size of /SAMBA/PUB/var/log.smb if it is large (maybe
> in the range of a few MB). There is a known issue here. Just move or
> purge the file away and a fresh one will be built by new Samba server
> processes. An SMBxxxx patch exists to fix this.
>
> Lars (running with "debug level >> 1" fills log.smb quickly)