BUG (samba 2.2.8): smbd -l <logfile> does not work under solaris

tony shepherd tony.shepherd at sun.com
Wed Mar 26 03:43:58 GMT 2003


Oh, that is just so annoying....

This must have changed from 2.0.x to 2.2.x.  It was logfile in 2.0.10 (what 
I am upgrading from)...

Well, I feel like a goose now.    That works so much better.....

Thanks for the help

tony

--On Tuesday, March 25, 2003 09:46:16 PM -0500 Brian Poole 
<raj at cerias.purdue.edu> wrote:

> Reread the man page, -l is log <directory>, not log <file>. Caught
> me on first try as well.
>
>
> -b
>
> Quoting tony shepherd (tony.shepherd at sun.com) from 26 March 2003:
>>
>> Folks
>>
>> **
>> I am not on this alias.  Could all relevent replies please be CC'ed to me
>> as well
>> **
>>
>> I have configured and compiled samba 2.2.8 with gcc 2.95.3 on Solaris 9
>> using the options --with-automount.
>>
>> When I try to use the command:
>>
>> 	smbd -D -l /var/log/log.smbd
>>
>> The log file is not created.  Neither is the default log file which is in
>> /usr/local/samba/var/.
>>
>>
>> # /usr/local/samba/bin/smbd -D -l /var/log/log.smbd
>> # ls -ald /var/log/log.smbd
>> /var/log/log.smbd: No such file or directory
>>
>>
>> The "log file" option in smb.conf works fine, but does not give you the
>> granularity to have different log files for nmbd and smbd.
>>
>>
>> tony
>>
>>
>>




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