[Samba] full_audit logs way too much

Kees van Vloten keesvanvloten at gmail.com
Wed Jun 15 20:08:24 UTC 2022


Op 15-06-2022 om 22:04 schreef Jeremy Allison:
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2022 at 10:00:20PM +0200, Kees van Vloten wrote:
>> Op 15-06-2022 om 20:52 schreef Jeremy Allison:
>>> They are only read when the VFS is fist connected to.
>>>
>>> If you have an existing connection, 'smbcontrol all reload-config'
>>> won't cause it to be dropped and re-loaded (for obvious
>>> reasons :-).
>> Hi Jeremy,
>>
>> With your explanation it is easy to understand why it works like it 
>> does. But users cannot know or guess this behaviour, I suppose? At 
>> least I would never have thought about it, also it feels inconsistent.
>>
>> If I understand you correctly it is not easy to change the code to 
>> instruct the vfs to reload-config. Then it comes down to writing it 
>> in the docs, but who ever reads those before running into the issue :-)
>
> It may be inconsistent, but it's essentially impossible to
> change, so I suggest to live with it :-).
>
> There are other things in Samba that can't be changed with
> 'smbcontrol all reload-config' once they've been initialized
> and there are live connections, so it's not too unexpected.

Is it possible for me, as a Samba user, to know what those are? So that 
I can restart or reload accurately.





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