Bug 13481 – samba log files

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

[Description roma1390 2003-01-08 04:02:19 UTC]

Normal log is done per host.
We have client with name foo then login is into directory: /var/log/log.foo
But /var/log/log.smbd and /var/log/log.smbmount is samba's system logs.
If someone tryes to rename pc to smbmount or smbd :((
I sugested to do system log:
/var/log/smbd.log
/var/log/smbmount.log

I didn't konw how works samba when two loging file has the same name.

[Comment 1 Donny Davies (RETIRED) 2003-01-21 23:26:08 UTC]

yeah mandrake has a patch for this, i think.

good idea.  will fix in the near future.

[Comment 2 Donny Davies (RETIRED) 2003-03-01 01:41:32 UTC]

Okay I'm actually not really sure what you're talking about, could you
please clarify, what, if anything, we need to do?

See this:
http://us1.samba.org/samba/whatsnew/macroexploit.html

Now, our example smb.conf file has the correct way to do the
per machine logging, as per the above article with regards to
syntax.

Also, it was Redhat that has a small patch for SAMBA logging
code, but it doesnt quite do what I originally thought it did.
Please take a look at their patch and lemme know what you think.

Also, would --logfilebase come into play for this at all?

I'm not sure if there's anything to fix here at the moment.

[Comment 3 roma1390 2003-03-01 08:44:45 UTC]

## samba-2.2.7a

I only want to say that deamon/command nmbd,smbd,smbmount do loging into:
/var/log/samba/log.<name>

eternal pc cnnections is loging into:
/var/log/samba/log.<name>

what hapens if someone has pc with name nmbd or smbd or smbmount?

[Comment 4 Donny Davies (RETIRED) 2003-06-04 23:49:36 UTC]

i dont think i can fix this, man.

you should really ask the samba folks about this i suppose.

[Comment 5 Donny Davies (RETIRED) 2003-09-26 19:08:03 UTC]

afaik this isnt an issue, logging is not changed by our ebuild.