Why do I see "systemd: smb.service: Supervising process ..."?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • The error is seen in /var/log/message:
systemd: smb.service: Supervising process 9456 which is not our child. We'll most likely not notice when it exits.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
  • systemd
  • Samba
  • chronyd

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