[PATCH/SAMBA4] Rename smbd to samba

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Tue Sep 23 20:18:06 GMT 2008


On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 01:02:51PM -0700, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-09-21 at 16:02 -0400, simo wrote:
> > On Sun, 2008-09-21 at 21:41 +0200, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> > > Attached is a patch that renames "smbd" in Samba 4 to "samba", per the
> > > discussion on the list earlier.
> > > 
> > > If there are no objections, I'll push this patch in a couple of days. 
> > > 
> > > Once this is in, I think the next step is looking at the "sambactl"
> > > utility that combines testparm and smbstatus.
> > > 
> > > Also, would it be a good idea to rename the source4/smbd directory to
> > > source4/server ? This directory doesn't contain any smb-specific code,
> > > it's all generic infrastructure.
> > 
> > Seem a god idea yes, the name is confusing as it is.
> 
> I'm not sure 'samba' is a great name for a daemon, but sambad is worse,
> and I don't have any better ideas.  Let's rename it now, or we never
> will..

Strongbad says sambad is cool. De email, da email, uh uh, da email !

:-).


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