GSoC: Community bonding questions

[Alexander Bokovoy]

On to, 21 touko 2020, hezekiah maina wrote:
> G'day everyone,
> 
> Please correct me if I am wrong. So when you provision an AD DC using the
> samba-tool command line utility the following files are created or modified:
>   smb.conf
>   *.ldb / *.tdb
>   krb5.conf
>   resolv.conf
>   /etc/hosts
> 
> Are there any other files that Samba creates or changes?
I don't remember the full list but you can generate a difference by
using 'find' command with -newer check:

 - touch a file before running samba-tool on a system
 - run samba-tool ...
 - run find after running samba-tool on a new system

For example, create a reference point by creating an empty file:

 # touch /root/timestamp

Run samba-tool and then run 'find' to see files in /var, /etc, /tmp that
were newer than the reference file:

 # find /var /etc /tmp -newer /root/timestamp -fls /root/list

The /root/list file will contain an output of everything that was
created or changed since the /root/timestamp file was created. It will
have some cahnges unrealted to samba-tool because other applications run
on the system anyway (for example, there might be a journal update) but
it should be able to capture all changes done to files by samba-tool.

For example, on my desktop system, when I ran the test above, without
running samba-tool, just 'touch' and then 'find', the resulting content
of /root/list was

538817386     12 drwx------   2  root     root         8192 touko 22 12:21 /var/lib/NetworkManager
569212108     12 -rw-r--r--   1  root     root         9184 touko 22 12:21 /var/lib/NetworkManager/timestamps
 24183816  24580 -rw-r-----   1  root     systemd-journal 25165824 touko 22 12:20 /var/log/journal/93d3bf53b5f243388193a0c43a1dba1f/user-1000.journal

So, there was some activity from NetworkManager and a systemd-journal
wrote some entries into a user-specific journal, most likely because
some of applications in my desktop session produced some background
'noise'.

We can filter out those unrelated changes manually.

This output corresponds using 'ls -dils', you can see definitions of
options in 'man ls'.


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/ Alexander Bokovoy