[Samba] Two logs for each daemon?

[John H Terpstra]

On Saturday 18 September 2004 19:02, Ed Kasky wrote:
> I just upgraded to 3.0.7-1 and noticed an slight oddity in the logs now
> beig created.  In my smb.conf I have:
>
> log level = 2
> log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
>
> Since upgrading I now get two logs for smbd and two for nmbd...
>
>      114676 Sep 18 07:19 /var/log/samba/log.nmbd
>      100728 Sep 18 15:35 /var/log/samba/nmbd.log
>          4656 Sep 18 06:34 /var/log/samba/log.smbd
>        55035 Sep 18 06:34 /var/log/samba/smbd.log

That has been the case since 3.0.0 so far as I can recall.

>
> I have not seen this with previous versions and was wondering if I might
> have done something that I am no taware of in the upgrade to cause this... 

You are not guilty! :) I see the same thing. Its a known behavior.

- John T.

>
> Ed Kasky
> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
> Randomly generated quote:
> Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
> - Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862)

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