Restarting AppleFileServer

SeaSoft Systems seasoft at west.net
Tue Feb 24 21:55:52 PST 2004


From: etyrnal at ameritech.net

>On Tuesday, February 24, 2004, at 05:26  PM, SeaSoft Systems wrote:
>
>>  My AppleFileServer service crashes occasionally (on an eMac Jag system
>>  10.2.8; the crash itself is related, I think, to a backup session from
>>  an OS 8.6 machine on my local network).
>>
>>  I can live with the crash, but I can't figure out how to get AFS
>>  restarted without rebooting the eMac.
>>
>>  I snooped around the terminal ("apropos restart") and came up with
>>  SystemStarter, which looks like it should do the job, acts like it
>>  does the job, but doesn't.
>>
>>  Any guidance much appreciated...
>>
>>  Richard
>
>i haver a machine that keeps turning it's AppleFileServer off...
>
>in the terminal;
>
>sudo AppleFileServer
>
>that's it...  it will ask you for your password.
>
>or you can just go into SystemPreferences and just turn file sharing
>back on...
>

Thanks!

For some reason, the sudo terminal command didn't restart the service 
OMM. However, SystemPrefs did the job. Doh! (smacks forehead...)

Richard



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