[Samba] Warning about unit files?

[Dachshund Digital]

Actually that is why I asked the additional question... that this likely 
could be something the package maintainer should fix.  :) Yeah, it maybe 
that the package maintainer is just not aware that @PIDDIR@ should be used.

-DD

On 04/04/2021 10:42, Rowland penny via samba wrote:
> On 04/04/2021 18:15, Dachshund Digital via samba wrote:
>> Is this an issue per se, is it going to be fixed at some point?
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>> [    6.590110] systemd[1]: /lib/systemd/system/smbd.service:9: 
>> PIDFile= references path below legacy directory /var/run/, updating 
>> /var/run/samba/smbd.pid → /run/samba/smbd.pid; please update the unit 
>> file accordingly.
>> [    6.662755] systemd[1]: /lib/systemd/system/nmbd.service:9: 
>> PIDFile= references path below legacy directory /var/run/, updating 
>> /var/run/samba/nmbd.pid → /run/samba/nmbd.pid; please update the unit 
>> file accordingly.
>>
>> This is something the package maintainer has to fix?  Since standard 
>> samba does have sample unit files, it should at least be fixed in 
>> those so the maintainer has a valid guide?
>>
>> This was found on debian 10 buster (ARMHF, not that the hardware 
>> platform matters for this issue).
>>
>>
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> How do you suggest Samba fixes 'PIDFile=@PIDDIR@/smbd.pid' ?
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> This is down to the package maintainers to fix, they are setting 
> '@PIDDIR@' to the wrong directory.
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