[Samba] log rotation in samba

Felipe Augusto van de Wiel felipe at paranacidade.org.br
Fri Sep 21 15:46:22 GMT 2007


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Tomasz Chmielewski wrote, On 21-09-2007 11:10:
> Melanie Pfefer schrieb:
>> Could you please share how you used logadm/logrotate
>> to rotate samba logs?
> 
> Hmm, doesn't Samba rotate the logs by itself? I.e.:
> 
> log level = 3
> syslog = 0
> log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
> max log size = 5000

	AFAIK, no.  This only tells samba how much information to
keep in each file and how detailed they are. If you want to have
history, you need to rotate it using something like logrotate.

	Kind regards,
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Felipe Augusto van de Wiel <felipe at paranacidade.org.br>
Coordenadoria de Tecnologia da Informação (CTI) - SEDU/PARANACIDADE
http://www.paranacidade.org.br/           Phone: (+55 41 3350 3300)
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