SAMBA digest 2491

[Niels Kokholm]

Thanks, I will be happy to test your changes to 2.0.7 with regards to
support for --with-utmp on our platform. I will be back on work on May 1.

Yours

Niels Jørgen Kokholm


On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, David Lee wrote:

> Re:
> 
> > Date:   Mon, 17 Apr 2000 14:44:57 +0200 (CEST)
> > From:   Niels Kokholm <kokholm at math.ku.dk>
> > To:     samba at samba.org
> > Subject: Problem: Samba 2.0.7pre4 --with-utmp on OSF1
> > 
> > I tried configuring Samba 2.0.7pre4 on a OSF1 machine (actually a DEC
> > Alpha running Digital Unix 4.0d) with --with-utmp. 
> > 
> > The autoconf system sets the variable HAVE_UTMPX_H
> > 
> > The linking of smbd aborts with the message 
> > ----------------------------------------------------------
> > ld:
> > Unresolved:
> > getutmpx
> > utmpxname
> > updwtmpx
> > *** Exit 1
> > ----------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > If I insert into smbd/connection.c
> > ----------------------------------------------------------
> > #if defined (OSF1)
> > #undef HAVE_UTMPX_H
> > #endif
> > ----------------------------------------------------------
> > right after 
> > ----------------------------------------------------------
> > /*
> >  * Apparently AIX has utmpx.h but doesn't implement it.
> >  * The test for this ought to be (a) more automatic (b) elsewhere.
> >  */
> > #if defined (AIX)
> > #undef HAVE_UTMPX_H
> > #endif
> > ----------------------------------------------------------
> > The linking of smbd works ok and logging to the utmp file seems to
> > work. There is no logging to the wtmp file, but that would be obvious from
> > the comments in smbd/connection.c for this case:
> > ----------------------------------------------------------
> >      /* *** Hmmm.  Appending wtmp (as distinct from overwriting utmp) has
> >         me baffled.  How is it to be done? *** */
> > ----------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Sorry for the delay in replying: I was on holiday.
> 
> (I write as the person who has been coordinating the utmp development.)
> 
> Thanks for the report.  The "utmp" functionality is brand new to
> "official" Samba at 2.0.7 .  It has turned out that each operating system
> has its own little quirks in this area. 
> 
> Even during the course of 2.0.7pre1 through to pre3, the utmp code in
> Samba was evolving rapidly to improve portability.  And, of course, this
> tends to run counter to a principal aim of such a phase, which is to
> stabilise the existing code.  So it was deliberately frozen (agreed by
> Jeremy and me) at "pre3". 
> 
> Meanwhile (and while not on holiday!), I have continued to develop a
> version of the utmp code with the prime aim of increasing portability to
> different operating systems.
> 
> Now that 2.0.7 is released, I hope rapidly to retrofit my most recent
> changes to that, and make them available.  I am reasonably confident that
> these changes should address the issues you raise.  Indeed, I hope you
> won't mind if, in a few days, I ask you to check them on your OS.
> 
> 

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