Checking log size fails

[MCCALL,DON (HP-USA,ex1)]

Hallo Hubert,
2.0.7 is supposed to do a better job of controlling the log file size than
previous versions, however there is an issue that in order for the current
log file to be renamed, and a new one started (smb, and smb.old, in your
case) the effective uid for the smbd dameon at the time it checks the log
size and needs to change it must be "0" (root).  So if you have heavy users
doing tasks that write a LOT of debug messages before smbd switches uids
from the user uid back to root for whatever reason, the debug file can grow
larger than the 'max log size' you request in smb.conf.

Anyway - a couple of things to relieve your problem:
1. unless you are trying to debug a problem, you should set the 
   'log level' in smb.conf to 0.  This will keep the size of your 
   debug file down.
2. I would bring down samba, and remove all the log files in the 
   var/log subdirectory, and verify that the filesystem that the 
   directory lives on is not filling up.
3. finally, check the permissions on the /,/var,/var/log subdirectories and
make sure that everyone has 'x' permission at least to traverse the
directories; also make sure that the /var/log
subdirectory is writeable by root; perhaps this was inadvertently changed
recently.

Question,
I note that the date on the var/log/smb file is current - are these
messages actually going to the 'console' or are they being written to this
file?  And you might also want to post your smb.conf file, for us to look at
your parameters regarding the logs, etc.

Hope this helps,
Don
   
-----Original Message-----
From: palme at uni-wuppertal.de [mailto:palme at uni-wuppertal.de]
Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2000 6:36 AM
To: samba at us5.samba.org
Cc: palme at uni-wuppertal.de
Subject: Checking log size fails


Hi,

please, could someone help me with that message:

Dec 28 11:44:48 wrpc3 smbd[31897]: [2000/12/28 11:44:48, 0]
lib/debug.c:check_log_size(311)
Dec 28 11:44:48 wrpc3 smbd[31897]:   check_log_size: open of debug file
/var/log/smb failed - using console.

My log files:

# ll /var/log/smb*
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root      2102310 Dez 28 10:44 /var/log/smb
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root      1024310 Nov 12 18:20 /var/log/smb.old.0
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root           30 Okt 29 06:48
/var/log/smb.old.1.gz
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root           30 Okt 15 06:49
/var/log/smb.old.2.gz
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root           30 Okt  1 06:49
/var/log/smb.old.3.gz
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root           30 Sep 17 06:49
/var/log/smb.old.4.gz
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root           30 Sep 10 06:49
/var/log/smb.old.5.gz
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root           30 Aug 27 06:49
/var/log/smb.old.6.gz
#

I set max log size to 1000!

What's wrong? (Perhaps a bug?)

Using version 2.0.7 (Debian linux 2.2 Potato)

Thanks in advance, and have a happy new year!

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