Extra samba-log appearances

Stephen L Arnold arnold.steve at ensco.com
Wed Mar 3 17:18:03 GMT 1999


When the world was young, Raven <raven at Tribe.OnlineToday.Com> 
carved some runes like this:  

> Before I kill these I wanted to ask if there was some reason these extra
> samba-log.<somenameInevermet> are appearing in my /var/log directory?  Is
> this a security breach or something I left turned on?  I am running Samba
> version 1.9.18p5 on a RedHat 5.1, 2.0.34, P166 with 32 Megs of RAM (128
> swap) and I am the only user on this box (I am both root and the regular
> user). I have a little web server on it as well but I don't publicize that
> to the world at large for the most part.  Any ideas?

It sounds like normal behavior; you should have a log file for smb, 
nmb, and the host machine.  You may also have log files for anyone 
defined in lmhosts or mapped in smbusers.  Is that correct?


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