BUG/PATCH: Samba 2.0.7pre3

Jason Haar Jason.Haar at trimble.co.nz
Wed Apr 12 20:37:16 GMT 2000


On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 02:06:36AM +1000, Mattias Gronlund wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> There is a bug in SAMBA that can make smbd to write the log-disk full. The "max log size"
> limit should be checked periodically if you read the man page, but the the code skips all these
> tests if smbd is not running as root when the check should be done.
> This is a real problem, we had a few disk-full problems before this patch.

Wow - thanks for the patch - it explains the 900Mb logfile a user here
generated....

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Cheers

Jason Haar

Unix/Network Specialist, Trimble NZ
Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417
               


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