[Samba] What are these samba errors about?

[David Disseldorp]

On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 11:34:21 -0700
James Moe <jimoe at sohnen-moe.com> wrote:

> > 
> > These message have started appearing the system logs </var/log/messages
> > and /var/log/warn> since Mar 2, 2011. They seem to occur about every 13
> > minutes (780 seconds). What could it mean? Is it serious?
> > 
> > ----[ sample log entries ]----
> > Mar  9 20:15:50 sma-station14l smbd[3711]: [2011/03/09 20:15:50.196387,
> >  0] smbd/server.c:281(remove_child_pid)

These harmless messages are emitted by the parent smbd SIGCHLD handler
on printcap cache update, see:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=666460

A fix is now upstream that increases the level at which these messages
are logged.

Cheers, David