Proposal: set default debug filename to something useful

Florian Laws florian at void.s.bawue.de
Sun Apr 4 14:01:09 GMT 1999


On Sun, Apr 04, 1999 at 05:03:21PM +1000, Tim Potter wrote:
> 
> --- debug.c	1998/12/16 18:50:54	1.18
> +++ debug.c	1999/04/04 06:58:30
> @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@
>   */
>  
>  FILE   *dbf        = NULL;
> -pstring debugf     = "";
> +pstring debugf     = "/var/adm/samba/log.smb";
>  BOOL    append_log = False;
[...]
> 
> After thinking for a bit I realised that I put this change in to catch
> DEBUG() statements that occur before a connection has been made.  This
> is pretty useful when you are mucking around with pre-connection
> stuff.
> 
> Is there any particular reason why this is set to nothing?  Perhaps it
> could be set to some default value or from the command line?  
> 
I think I at least it shouldn't be hard coded this way.
I shouln't it be set by a smb.conf or at least by a ./configure option?

Florian


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