SMB static log file

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Sat, 2009-05-16 at 20:03 +0200, Piotr Buliński wrote:
> Wiadomość napisana w dniu 2009-05-16, o godz. 19:44, przez Volker  
> Lendecke:
> 
> > On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 10:23:04AM +0200, Piotr Buliński wrote:
> >> Hello All,
> >>
> >> I am wondering if it would be possible to do anything with hard coded
> >> log.smbd i log.nmbd in samba. It is really annoying when I do not  
> >> want
> >> to have anything logged into files (syslog only = yes), but samba
> >> every restart create log files.
> >>
> >> I know this is because reopen_logs and DEBUG(....) are called before
> >> configuration load, so there is no way to make it through
> >> configuration file.
> >>
> >> But maybe it would be possible to modify reopen_logs() and/or add
> >> another flag to daemon, that prevent from creating log.* files (send
> >> to syslog?)?
> >>
> >> I really would like to discuss about this issue with You and find  
> >> some
> >> constructive solution.
> >
> > Would a cmd line parameter to the daemons help? That should
> > set Globals.bSyslogOnly to true very early.
> >
> > Can you provide a patch to do this?
> >
> > Volker
> 
> It would be great to set it from command line.
> I could try to do this to end of weekend.

While I realise it would not be as simple as a quick patch for this, I
note that the Samba4 --option= command line syntax would probably handle
this.

Unfortunately the parameter systems diverged in two different directions
after Samba4 branched (so it's not a trivial merge), but I just wanted
to mention this as a long-term possibility.

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett
http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc.
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