Question regarding Samba4 updates

Andreas Oster aoster at novanetwork.de
Mon Aug 27 23:51:03 MDT 2012


Am 28.08.2012 01:26, schrieb Andrew Bartlett:
> On Sat, 2012-08-25 at 09:02 -0500, Ricky Nance wrote:
>> Andreas, while it looks like the command will work with either a running or
>> non running system, when you issue the --fix it could potentially make
>> changes to the ldb files. I have seen it said a few times that this should
>> not be done on a running system. If it were me, I would run it right after
>> make install on an upgrade.
> 
> Ricky,
> 
> You are quite correct.  As you already have to shut down samba to do the
> upgrade, the samba-tool dbcheck --fix is best run while Samba is shut
> down.
> 
> We do intend this tool to be safe to run, particularly when the system
> is operating, but running it before starting Samba gives us a chance to
> fix things before Samba starts.
> 
> Andrew Bartlett
> 

Hello Ricky, hello Andrew,

thank you for your answers ?

best regards

Andreas



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