[Samba] PID-File smbd/nmbd

[w.wegner at astro-kom.de]

Hi again,

as there was no response yet, I send another ping for this.

With the reference "r19533" given by Jerry I could at least find
another question by Volker Lendecke who also was wondering
what this patch was about - but without topic-related answer.

Again, I consider it a bug because
a) the behaviour is completely undocumented
b) it is unnecessary because it can be more cleanly handled
   by the "pid directory"
c) it makes startup scripts for multiple server setups more complicated

Maybe I still have the wrong search string, but I could not find any
discussion about in the samba-technical archives either...

Best regards,
Wolfgang

On 19 Sep 2008 at 8:50, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:

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> w.wegner at astro-kom.de wrote:
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> >> This was a patch specifically added by request IIRC.
> >>
> >>   commit e8bf421c018ed829b9dba7c0872693080b77d49d
> >>   Author: Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org>
> >>   Date:   Thu Nov 2 09:37:52 2006 +0000
> >>
> >>     r19533: Add a suffix to the program name if this is a
> >>     process with a non-default configuration file name.
> >>     Jeremy.
> > 
> > thanks for the clarification!
> > 
> > I did not find that reference to the change, so could not know
> > about its history.
> > 
> > Nevertheless I can not see why it is useful to have such an
> > automatism here. Those who use a different config file could
> > have a config file option, so a new config option "pid file name"
> > would have solved the problem and cause less trouble for
> > others, IMHO.
> 
> Since Jeremy committed the patch, I'll defer to him to
> explain why :-)  I honestly can't remember.  it should be
> discussed in the samba-technical archives I believe in case he
> s getting old and can't remember either.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> cheers, jerry
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