[PATCH] Remove serverid.tdb

[Volker Lendecke]

On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 07:42:01AM +0100, Andreas Schneider wrote:
> Hey!
> 
> As this removes the 'net serverid' command I think you need to mention this in 
> WHATSNEW.txt.

Attached. Review appreciated!

Thanks, Volker

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From ce790d0b2920b960bfc32979e8994caaabbefbc0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Volker Lendecke <vl at samba.org>
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2017 11:24:55 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] WHATSNEW: Mention removed net serverid subcommands

Signed-off-by: Volker Lendecke <vl at samba.org>
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 WHATSNEW.txt | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)

diff --git a/WHATSNEW.txt b/WHATSNEW.txt
index 3acadc3eb26..8f5986ec55e 100644
--- a/WHATSNEW.txt
+++ b/WHATSNEW.txt
@@ -83,6 +83,23 @@ reversed to match the parameter ordering of the UNIX extensions
 'symlink' command. The usage message for this command has also
 been improved to remove confusion.
 
+REMOVED FEATURES
+================
+
+The two commands "net serverid list" and "net serverid wipe" have been
+removed, because the file serverid.tdb is not used anymore.
+
+"net serverid list" can be replaced by listing all files in the
+subdirectory "msg.lock" of Samba's "lock directory". The unique id
+listed by "net serverid list" is stored in every process' lockfile in
+"msg.lock".
+
+"net serverid wipe" is not necessary anymore. It was meant primarily
+for clustered environments, where the serverid.tdb file was not
+properly cleaned up after single node crashes. Nowadays smbd and
+winbind take care of cleaning up the msg.lock and msg.sock directories
+automatically.
+
 KNOWN ISSUES
 ============
 
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