[Samba] splitting/duplicating log files - how?

Rowland penny rpenny at samba.org
Tue Oct 15 09:54:31 UTC 2019


On 15/10/2019 10:29, lejeczek via samba wrote:
> hi everyone
>
> I'd like to ask, with having basic logging in config as here:
>   
>    log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
>    max log size = 5000
>    log level = 1 auth:3 tdb:5 passdb:3 sam:3 winbind:0 idmap:3
>
> log files get populated on per-machine basis.
>
> Would it be possible to put all authentication into one separate file
> simultaneously?
>
> many thanks, L.
>
Never felt the need to do it myself, but smb.conf says this under 'log 
level':

To configure the logging for specific classes to go into a different 
file then log file, you can append @PATH to the class, eg log level = 1 
full_audit:1@/var/log/audit.log.

Rowland





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