how to test magic script

Charlie Brady cbrady at ind.tansu.com.au
Thu Aug 20 01:14:22 GMT 1998


On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Daniel Grandjean wrote:

> > 
> > I remember at some stage that samba wasn't executing magic scripts at the
> > top level of a share (because . wasn't in the path). So try a subdirectory
> > first.
> > 
> 
> Thanks Charlie
> It was indeed the case, I was always testing the script from
> the top level directory.

And that sounds like a bug to me. I would think that magic scripts should
*always* be executed as "./path" rather than "path". That will both
prevent your problem, and make sure that some other "path" is not executed
by mistake.

> Everything run fine from any other place.
> 
> Thanks
> Daniel.

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