[Samba] backup_samba4 script failing

[Rowland Penny]

On Wed, 23 Nov 2016 13:47:37 +0100
"L.P.H. van Belle via samba" <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> Hi Bob, 
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> Ah, now I see the the core of this problem. 
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> This is the main problem. 
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> You smbd –b output 
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> Paths:
>    SBINDIR: /usr/local/samba/sbin
>    BINDIR: /usr/local/samba/bin
>    CONFIGFILE: /usr/local/samba/etc/smb.conf             <<<<<<<<<< 
>    LOGFILEBASE: /usr/local/samba/var
>    LMHOSTSFILE: /usr/local/samba/etc/lmhosts
>    LIBDIR: /usr/local/samba/lib
>    MODULESDIR: /usr/local/samba/lib
>    SHLIBEXT: so
>    LOCKDIR: /usr/local/samba/var/lock
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> And below in the email your telling that you config is in /etc/samba 
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> Due to this mismatch, the script is failing. 
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I suppose the question is, does Samba know that smb.conf isn't where it
thinks it is ?
Are the Samba binaries being started with the -s option ?

Rowland