[Samba] 2.2.6pre2 (and previous?) "tiny bug" with "log file"
attribute
Andrew Bartlett
abartlet at samba.org
Wed Sep 25 21:33:00 GMT 2002
Pierre Belanger wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I never thought I would need to change the default log
> file path, but I had and found a bug.
>
> When changing my default "log file" from
>
> /usr/local/samba/var/log.%m
>
> to
>
> /usr/local/samba/var/log/log.%m
>
> there are always files created in the "default compiled"
> log directory /usr/local/samba/var when nmbd and smbd
> start.
Yes - we need to start logging before we have parsed the configuration
file. There is a lot that can go wrong before we get there, and the
admin needs to have some chance of finding it. There is a command line
optin if you would prefer, and that is parsed very early.
Andrew Bartlett
--
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