Samba has 2 pid

[Ed Greshko]

LorD of jUmP wrote:
> I don't know why my smb service has 2 pid when I called its status
> 
> smbd (pid 7534 7530) is running ....
> nmbd (pid 7535) is running ....

Normal....

If you did something like....

ps -eaf|grep smb

you would see something like....

root      5110     1  0 Jan20 ?        00:00:00 
/usr/local/samba/sbin/smbd -D
root      5114  5110  0 Jan20 ?        00:00:00 
/usr/local/samba/sbin/smbd -D

Note the 5114 process is a child of the 5110 process....

> Is there somethings wrong?
> I also have VMware installed. I'm not sure if it related?

Unrelated...

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