[SAMBA4] Rename smbd to samba?

[Jelmer Vernooij]

Am Montag, den 30.06.2008, 10:29 +0200 schrieb Stefan (metze)
Metzmacher:
> Andrew Tridgell schrieb:
> > Hi Jelmer,
> > 
> >  > > I had this discusion with tridge a few years ago and he wanted to keep
> >  > > 'smbd'. But for me it would be fine to call it 'samba'.
> >  > Ah, ok. tridge, do you still prefer keeping the name smbd? 
> > 
> > I don't mind if it is renamed to samba, although perhaps sambad would
> > be more in line with conventions?
> > 
> > I also think the various config/status utils could do with a
> > rename. One possible approach would be:
> > 
> >   sambad - main daemon
> >   samba  - status/config tool. Replacing 'net', 'smbstatus', 'testparm' etc

> > So admins would run "samba status" to get status. They would run
> > "samba config show" to do what testparm does.
Yeah, merging some of the daemon maintaince tools seems like a good
 idea (and a new major version seems like the right time to make that change). 

> you said that 'sambad' ("sam" "bad") was a bad name...:-)
> 
> what about 'samba' and 'samba-ctl'
Yeah, samba and samba-ctl (or sambactl ?) seems better to me as well. 

Cheers,

Jelmer
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