FC4 [root ~]# service smb start Starting SMB services: /etc/init.d/functions: line 83: 3591 Aborted $nice $* [FAILED] Starting NMB services: [ OK ] Line83 in "functions" : daemon() { I'm not very familiar with nice or shell scripting, so I'd definitely be interested in hearing what the problem is (or more specifically, what I'm doing wrong!).