How to set Samba log file names.

[Gerald Carter]

On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Joel Hammer wrote:

> Edit the source files and recompile.
>
> OR
>
> You could edit the binary.  There is only one occurrence of log.smbd
> in the binary smbd. Use vi -b or some other editor to fix that up.
> Ditto, nmbd.  I have found this works well in other programs, like
> netscape. Just make sure you don't add or delete any bytes. This will
> be the easiest way, most likely.
>
> OR
>
> You could make log.smbd a symbolic link pointing to smbd.log. To get the
> offensive names out of sight, you could use the -l option (see smbd -h
> and nmbd -h) to change the base name for the log directory to some place
> where you will never have to see them.


	smbd -l /var/log/samba/smbd.log

or fix the source and recompile... :-)








chau, jerry
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