[Samba] Debugging Samba is a total PITA and this needs to improve

Ralph Boehme slow at samba.org
Tue May 21 14:06:23 UTC 2019


On 5/21/19 3:32 PM, Aurélien Aptel via samba wrote:
> Sven Schwedas via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> writes:
>> Once again, something with Samba thirty bazillion components broke. Once
>> again, my choices for logging are "nothing" or "15 MB/s spread of ten
>> different files, because 'client authentication failed' totally needs to
>> be lower priority than malloc debug info". Once again, none of these
>> messages is actually able to convey what broke, where, why. Why is it
> 
> Regarding the huge and verbose logs: I can suggest you smblog-mode[1],
> it's not really a solution and it's kind of made for emacs users but it
> makes sorting thru logs less painful.

...I guess we also need wblog-mode for winbindd. :)

Cheerio!
-slow


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