[Samba] why both smbd.log and log.smbd?

[Herb Lewis]

If you look at the contents of those files, they contain
the messages that go out before smb.conf is parsed. Those
are the compiled in default names.

David Mathog wrote:
> Our smb.conf file contains:
> 
>         log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
> 
> yet the /var/log/samba directory has all of these:
> 
>   smbd.log
>   log.smbd
>   nmbd.log
>   log.nmbd
> 
> I verified that the %m.log forms are from the log file line by
> temporarily changing it to foo_%m.log.  Using "lsof" I was able to see
> that the log.%m forms are from the smbd and nbmd processes.  
> 
> Why are these other two forms, which do not respect the "log file"
> setting, present?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> David Mathog
> mathog at caltech.edu
> Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech