[Samba] SAMBA: Share specific log files

[Cleber P. de Souza]

Maybe the file descriptors wasn't properly closed yet.
I think that a stop and start will force the process to immediately obeys you.


On 5/18/07, Srini <v.vvsrini at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We find that the log messages gets correctly redirected after a
> certain period of time from a samba service restart (3 or 4 minutes).
> Till this initial period of time, it looks like the log messages are
> getting redirected to the default log file but after this time and
> with the below code change, it is getting redirected into the
> appropriate share specific log file. Does anyone have any ideas on why
> this is not happening from beginning??
>
> Thanks
>
> Srini
>
> On 5/17/07, Srini <v.vvsrini at gmail.com> wrote:
> > No. They dont seem to work for being used in log file. Apparently
> > these can not be used for log file names in the configuration file but
> > for other execution scripts (preexec and postexec).
> >
> > Srini
> >
> > On 5/16/07, Cleber P. de Souza <cleberps at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > The share variables %P and %S don't help you?
> > > Like this:
> > > log file = /var/log/samba/%S.log
> > >
> > >
> > > On 5/16/07, Srini <v.vvsrini at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > We are trying to print the log messages pertaining to each share in a
> > > > different log file for auditing purposes.
> > > >
> > > > We are using Samba v3.0.20b.
> > > >
> > > > We are trying to modify the file
> > > > smbd/service.c::make_connection_snum() function by changing the log
> > > > file full path. The code changes that is done are as follows:
> > > >
> > > >        char logfilefullpath[70];
> > > >        char sharename[256];
> > > >
> > > >        safe_strcpy_fn (__FILE__, __LINE__ ,logfilefullpath,
> > > > "/log/sharenet/", sizeof ("/log/sharenet/"));
> > > >        safe_strcat_fn
> > > > (__FILE__,__LINE__,logfilefullpath,lp_servicename(snum),
> > > > sizeof("/log/sharenet/")+sizeof(lp_servicename(snum)));
> > > >        safe_strcat_fn (__FILE__,__LINE__,logfilefullpath,".log",
> > > > sizeof("/log/sharenet/")+sizeof(lp_servicename(snum))+sizeof(".log"));
> > > >
> > > >        safe_strcpy_fn
> > > > (__FILE__,__LINE__,sharename,lp_servicename(snum),
> > > > sizeof("/log/sharenet/")+sizeof(lp_servicename(snum)));
> > > >        lp_set_logfile(logfilefullpath);
> > > >        safe_strcpy_fn
> > > > (__FILE__,__LINE__,debugf,logfilefullpath,sizeof(logfilefullpath));
> > > >
> > > >        if( DEBUGLVL( IS_IPC(conn) ? 3 : 1 ) ) {
> > > >                dbgtext( "%s (%s) ", get_remote_machine_name(),
> > > > conn->client_address );
> > > >                dbgtext( "%s", srv_is_signing_active() ? "signed " : "");
> > > >                dbgtext( "connect to service %s ", lp_servicename(snum) );
> > > >                dbgtext( "initially as user %s ", user );
> > > >                dbgtext( "(uid=%d, gid=%d) ", (int)geteuid(), (int)getegid() );
> > > >                dbgtext( "(pid %d)\n", (int)sys_getpid() );
> > > >        }
> > > >
> > > > We have done a similar code snipped in the relevant portion of the
> > > > code in open_file part of Samba as well. However we find that the log
> > > > file randomly gets written to the default log file (log file= variable
> > > > in smb.conf) or sometimes to the share specific log file (that we have
> > > > attempted above). It looks like that this was a buffering problem and
> > > > so we tried to put in dbgflush() routine as well after calling
> > > > dbgtext() macro. Still with no success...
> > > >
> > > > Has anyone tried to modify the source code to generate share specific
> > > > log trails - either by modifying the source code or without? If so,
> > > > can the experts guide us on this?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks in advance for all your inputs and help,
> > > >
> > > > Srini
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> > >
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> > > Cleber P. de Souza
> > >
> >
>


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