a much improved smbprint script.

[Alfred Perlstein]

* Richard Sharpe <sharpe at ns.aus.com> [011209 11:40] wrote:
> Hi Alfred,
> 
> Thanks for this scripts ... I can see that it has been cleaned up a lot.
> 
> However, I have one big problem with it at the moment, but of course 
> there was already a big problem with the original, that is related to 
> the problem that you have introduced :-)
> 
> Your script assumes that smbclient is to be found at 
> /usr/pkg/bin/smbclient, while the original assumed that it was to be 
> found at /usr/local/samba/bin/smbclient.
> 
> Your solution is an improvement, but I think I will have to take it one 
> step further. There is, I think, an install script that goes through a 
> bunch of scripts and fixes up the locations of such things.
> 
> This will involve making smbprint a standard script that is installed by 
> Samba. I will ask the team what they think of the idea, and add it.
> 
> At the very least, I will add what you have provided with a small change 
> and a comment to change the location of smbprint.

Actually, I should have allowed the shell variable 'smbprint' to be
overloaded from the config file at least.  I'll send you an update
in a day or two.

Yes, the fixup script seems like a good idea, I figure it could
probably
be done via configure... but then again, i'm no configure guru.


-- 
-Alfred Perlstein [alfred at freebsd.org]
'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology,"
 start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.'
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