[Samba] Samba 2.2.3a won't log

[Michael Schwager]

Thanks Don; I started smbd with an strace and indeed you are correct.  It 
seems the man page needs a bit of maintenance... I'll mention it to 
samba at samba.org.

--On Tuesday, March 19, 2002 9:22 AM -0500 "MCCALL,DON (HP-USA,ex1)" 
<don_mccall at hp.com> wrote:

> Hi Michael,
> I believe that the issue is that the smbd file DOES exist.
> Problem is that the -l option is not expecting a FILE name, but a
> DIRECTORY name, where it will CREATE files like log.smbd, etc.
> Hope this helps
...
> I am running Samba 2.2.3a this way:
>
> /usr/local/samba/bin/smbd -D -l /var/log/samba/smbd -d 1
>
> There is nothing in /var/log/samba/smbd.  The file does exist; it
> is owned by root.
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