On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 10:57:22AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > Just bringed in a discussion around here at SambXP.
> We still have a weekly logrotate entry for log.smbd and log.nmbd. > However, Samba does its own log rotation internally. Moreover, as this > bug shows, as we only reload samba, the *old* files are still used. > In short, log rotation probably doesn't make sense. So, indeed, should > we keep it? > On the other hand, samba's rotation scheme is much more crude than > logrotate's (only rename the old logfile to .old)....but, at this > time, this seems to be the only usable one. I don't see that samba's built-in rotation is usable at all. It's completely inconsistent with the logrotate system that's used for all other logs; it doesn't support keeping more than one old logfile around, and there's no support for rotation by date, only by file size. I don't think that's adequate; if there are problems with Samba not reopening logfiles when we need it to, I think that's a bug to be fixed. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]