Time interval for log file renaming.

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Fri Jan 3 15:27:01 GMT 2003


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On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Colin Slade wrote:

> Hi there
> 
> A quick question, as I've looked around but can't find it documented
> anywhere. From the man page of smb.conf re. max log size :
> 
> "Samba periodically checks the size and if it is exceeded it will rename
> the file, adding a ".old" extension."
> 
> Is there a way to set/change this time period ?
> 
> The reason I ask is that during large (3-400MB) downloads to a samba
> share I noticed that log files were growing up to 40 MB even although
> the max log size is set to 500k.

IIRC, the log rotation is handled in our idle loop.  SMB packets are given 
priority so on a busy server the period will be longer than on an idle 
one.  See smbd/process.c or something like that.




cheers, jerry
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