Failed to start Samba service
Issue
- Samba service fails to start with the following error in logs.
- The error indicates having wrong permission for location
/var/lib/samba/private/msg.sock'
and/var/log/samba/cores
[2021/11/24 04:51:49, 0] ../../lib/util/util.c:279(directory_create_or_exist_strict)
invalid permissions on directory '/var/log/samba/cores': has 0755 should be 0700
[2021/11/24 04:51:49, 0] ../../source3/lib/dumpcore.c:60(get_default_corepath)
Failed to create /var/log/samba/cores for user 0 with mode 0700
[2021/11/24 04:51:49.707163, 0] ../../lib/util/util.c:279(directory_create_or_exist_strict)
invalid permissions on directory '/var/lib/samba/private/msg.sock': has 0775 should be 0700
[2021/11/24 04:55:17, 0] ../../lib/util/util.c:279(directory_create_or_exist_strict)
invalid permissions on directory '/var/log/samba/cores': has 0755 should be 0700
[2021/11/24 04:55:17, 0] ../../source3/lib/dumpcore.c:60(get_default_corepath)
Failed to create /var/log/samba/cores for user 0 with mode 0700
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
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