[Samba] How to check which current version you're running ????

[Jay Ts]

Try the ps command.  On Linux for example, the command

	ps ax | grep smbd

will output something like

  741 ?        S      0:03 /usr/local/samba/bin/smbd -D
 4022 pts/1    S      0:00 grep smbd

On other Unix versions, the behavior of ps may vary.  Try some
options your ps supports and see if you can get the full path
to smbd.  Then you can use the 'smbd -V' command (with the
full path to smbd specified) to get the version.

This still is not an absolute measure.  If a new version was
installed after smbd started, then the old version will be
running, even if the executable was deleted from the disk.

I'm not totally sure (because the manpage is a bit skimpy)
but it seems you can use smbstatus to get the version of the
running daemon:

# smbstatus

Samba version 2.2.4
Service      uid      gid      pid     machine
----------------------------------------------


Jay Ts
jay at jayts.cx

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> I know about which, but, the question is, which daemon is actually started
> up by the startup scripts.
> Joel
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 04:48:56PM +0100, Martyn Ranyard wrote: > 
> e
> > under most linux distros a handy util is which, which tells you which file 
> > is first in your path.
> > 
> > if you only have one samba install, the following command will tell you 
> > where it is (if it is in your path) :
> > 
> > which smbd
> > 
> > if not, you can always try :
> > 
> > locate smbd
> > 
> > if that finds nothing that's executable :
> > 
> > updatedb; locate smbd  OR  find / | grep smbd
> > 
> > they do exactly the same thing, but the former saves the entire tree to the 
> > locate database, so you can do a locate anything!
> > 
> > At 10:30 AM 7/4/02 -0400, Joel Hammer wrote:
> > >Find the daemon you actually run, and:
> > >daemon -V
> > >eg.
> > >smbd -V
> > >
> > >Joel
> > >
> > >On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 04:09:47PM +0200, stein.hustad at norskagip.agip.it 
> > >wrote:
> > > > Stein Hustad
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> > 
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