various small problems with (bugs in?) Samba 2.2

[Gerald Carter]

On Wed, 02 May 2001 12:08:40 Patrick Goetz wrote:
>
> > This works correctly.  Thw two log files is by design.  No 
> > way to override this.  As far as the smb.conf parameter,
> > [smbd|nmbd] will write to the compile time default until
> > the config file is parsed.  It's a chicken and egg problem.
> > 
> 
> Sorry, you completely lost me.  Does this mean that I 
> can somehow redirect at least most of the log output to 
> a file in /var/log by adding something to smb.conf, or 

Yes, you can do this.  You can also yuse a configure option
to define a location outside of $prefix.

> > Look in $prefix/var/locks/*pid
> > 
> 
> Here's the tale of the tape:
> 
>    poweredge:/opt/samba/var# ps auxw | egrep "smb|nmb"
>    root     11550  0.0  0.3  3088 1316 ?        S    May01   0:00
>    /opt/samba/sbin/smbd -D
>    root     11552  0.0  0.3  2188 1240 ?        S    May01   0:12
>    /opt/samba/sbin/nmbd -D
>    root     11553  0.0  0.2  2116  964 ?        S    May01   0:00
>    /opt/samba/sbin/nmbd -D
> 
>    poweredge:/opt/samba/var# ls
>    log.nmbd  log.smbd  logon
> 
> 
> i.e. no locks directory.

How did you install Samba?  From source?  What configure 
options did you use?  What platform is this?  Sorry but I can't
remember the original mail.





Cheers, jerry
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