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

[David Collier-Brown -- Customer Engineering]

   The routine really should emit a message of the
form "sorry, you have to pass me a directory"...
I'll check head this evening and try for a patch.

--dave

tony shepherd wrote:
> 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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