[Samba] turned on log level = 10 . . . no logs

[Bob of Donelson Trophy]

On 2016-09-30 15:43, Bob of Donelson Trophy via samba wrote:

> On 2016-09-30 15:20, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 30 Sep 2016 14:41:45 -0500
>> Bob of Donelson Trophy via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>> 
>> On 2016-09-30 14:16, Bob of Donelson Trophy via samba wrote:
>> 
>> On 2016-09-30 13:59, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
>> 
>> On Fri, 30 Sep 2016 13:04:49 -0500
>> Bob of Donelson Trophy via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>> 
>> On 2016-09-30 07:27, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
>> 
>> On Fri, 30 Sep 2016 07:01:05 -0500
>> Bob of Donelson Trophy via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>> 
>> I have created a second DC and joined it to my first DC. Seemed to
>> go well, then not. Now experiencing dns issues. My syslog on first
>> DC shows "Failed to connect host 192.168.xx.49
>> (22******c8._msdcs.dtshrm.dt) on port 135 -
>> NT_STATUS_CONNECTION_REFUSED." (Which is referencing the second DC
>> connection failed.) 
>> 
>> Now, _please set the dns issue aside for the moment_ as I went to
>> my second DC and set log level to "10" to see what is going on and
>> the second DC is not generating log files. It did not create
>> /var/log/samba/* anything. This after a couple of restarts. I
>> checked the "smbd -b" output of DC2 and Samba is set to
>> "LOGFILEBASE: /var/log/samba." 
>> 
>> The second DC is a Ubuntu 16.04.1LTS running Samba 4.3.9 (from
>> repo) and bind9.10.3-P4-Ubuntu. 
>> 
>> Does anyone know how can I get the logs to generate? Is there
>> something else I "need to turn on"? 
>> Lets start with the dns entries, go and read this:
>> 
>> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Verifying_and_Creating_a_DC_DNS_Record
>> 
>> Rowland 
>> I had been through that but something changed. 
>> 
>> When I get to  "ldbsearch-H /var/lib/samba/private/sam.ldb
>> '(invcationId=*)' --cross-ncs objectguid" now returns "Search
>> failed - Unsupported critical extension 1.2.840.113226.1.4.1340" 
>> 
>> So . . . thoughts?
>> 
>> OK, try running 'samba-tool dbcheck --cross-ncs' and if it shows any
>> errors, run it again adding '--fix'
>> 
>> Rowland 
>> 
>> The results are:    Checked 3534 objects (0 errors)
> 
> There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with your AD'
> Checking google for 1.2.840.113226.1.4.1340 doesn't turn up any
> results, reducing it to 1.2.840.113226 doesn't return anything either,
> microsoft seems to use 1.2.840.113556, so have you extended your schema
> and if so, with what ?
> 
> Rowland
> 
> When I work via command line from a different location and "shutdown -r
> 0" I have experienced that some times "things" don't restart quite
> right. I decided to shut it down (rather than just restart) as I am
> "looking at the box" and power up from "dead" stop. 
> 
> When I:  "ldbsearch-H /var/lib/samba/private/sam.ldb '(invocationId=*)'
> --cross-ncs objectguid" now returns >>correct results.<< 
> 
> I have always called this type of restart a "Bob thing". Shut it OFF,
> let everything stop moving (inside) and then start it up again. 
> 
> It seems to be fixed. Sorry I bothered the list with this nonsense. But,
> thanks for your help, Rowland!!
> 
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> Bob Wooden of Donelson Trophy

To close the subject line "turned on log level = 10 . . . no logs" I
discovered that while running an ssd I had redirected /var/log/* to
tmpfs to reduce the writes to and from the ssd. Disabling this
redirection in /etc/fstab and "mkdir /var/log/samba/" and now samba is
logging normally.

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