[Samba] frustrating problems with "preexec = ..." option
Kris Jordan
krisj at owt.com
Thu Apr 11 22:47:02 GMT 2002
I've also had many troubles with preexec and root preexec not working for
some reason in Samba 2.2. I've tried higher log levels, but did not see
anything as far as I could tell. root preexec used to work for me, now it
doesn't...I wonder what's up?
- Kris Jordan -
At 01:35 PM 3/22/2002, Mikael Olenfalk wrote:
>Hi!
>
>in my smb.conf file, added the line
>
>[statistics]
> ...
>+ preexec = /bin/bash /home/scripts/stats /home/statistics
> ...
>
>to be executed before I enter the [statistics] share, due to some error
>or misconfiguration though, the command is *NOT* executed. The script
>itself works
>perfectly because when I type:
>
># /home/scripts/stats /home/statistics
>
>the script is executed correctly (it creates to files in the folder
>/home/statistics) even the line
>
># /bin/bash /home/scripts/stats /home/statistics
>
>executes correctly. The scripts has owner nobody.nogroup, so there
>should be no problems with permissions, I've run an "chmod o+x" (and
>desperate chmod 777 ...) over the script, but both with no effect.
>
>Smbd has become sighup'ped repeatedly (kill -HUP $(pidof smbd)) and the
>log says that smbd has received and HUP signal.
>
>
>/mikael
>
>
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