Ubuntu-devel-discuss Digest, Vol 40, Issue 13

[Patrick Goetz]

> Subject: Re: Upstart (now, a very modest suggestion)
> From:    Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com>
> Date:    Sun, 7 Mar 2010 14:28:48 -0500
> To:      ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com
> 
> I assume that the samba job has been split into two because there was
> a problem with nmbd not starting when smbd and nmbd were launched
> through samba.
> 
> If you look at the respective conf files, you will see that nmbd
> requires a nic other than lo to be up before starting.
> 

So, although it makes sense that there is little reason to run nmbd when 
the only network connection is lo, it makes even _less_ sense, AFAIK, to 
run smbd when there are no external network connections.  I couldn't 
think of a single scenario where smbd does anything without networking 
-- mounting local SMB file systems only requires mount.cifs, which is in 
an entirely different package (smbfs).

Is one service/daemon per /etc/init .conf file part of the Upstart 
design spec, perhaps?