Weird Log entries

[JONATHAN W MINER]

Are the messages that you are seeing on the console being logged in any
of the other log file?  You may want to look at the syslog.conf file to
determine what classes of messages are being logged to the console.

Another possibility is that these messages are being printed to the
standard output or standard error of the "smbd" process.  You might try
starting smbd is this manner:

sh#  smbd -D > /tmp/smbd.stout.log 2> /tmp/smbd.stderr.log

Hopefully someone else on the list will recognize these errors and
suggest a way to fix the problem that is causing the messages. :-)

"James W. Beauchamp" wrote:
> 
> Jonathan:
> I looked and /var/log/messages is there as well as log.nmb and log.smb.
> 
> James
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "JONATHAN W MINER" <Jonathan.W.Miner at lmco.com>
> To: "James W. Beauchamp" <jbeauchamp at gesinc.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 2:21 PM
> Subject: Re: Weird Log entries
> 
> > James -
> >
> > My first guess would be that you don't have one of the log files
> > defined, and the default is to log to the console...
> >
> > "James W. Beauchamp" wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi all:
> > > I have RH Linux 6.2 running samba 2.0.7 and acting as a domain
> controller
> > > for winnt and MS95/98 users (10 total).
> > >
> > > I have noticed that when my console sits inactive at the login prompt
> for
> > > awhile (I don't know how long - I haven't tried to time it) I get the
> > > following messages sort of written over top of the login prompt:
> > >
> > > smb_get_length: recv error=5
> > > smb_request: result -5, setting invalid
> > > smb_retry: new PID=process number here, generation=5
> > >
> > > In trying to find out what this is I have the following things repeated
> in
> > > my log.smb and log.nmb
> > >
> > > Gethostbyaddr failed for x.x.x.x (this repeats for all ip's assigned)
> > >
> > > in log.nmb
> > > process_logon_packet: Logon from x.x.x.x code=0x7
> > > where x.x.x.x is an NT4 workstation, but it appears for all ip's.
> > >
> > > If it helps, all ip's are assigned by DHCP
> > >
> > > In spite of this, all seems to work o.k.  Any ideas what this could be?
> I
> > > know it can't be right, but I am stumped.
> > >
> > > TIA
> > >
> > > James
> > >
> > > "If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes"
> >
> > --
> > Jonathan Miner - Lockheed Martin EIS/SAI
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> >

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Jonathan Miner - Lockheed Martin EIS/SAI
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Phone: 603 885 UNIX - Fax: 603 885 3850
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