February 2003
Intermediate to advanced
560 pages
23h 11m
English
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Logging Configuration Options
Occasionally, we need to find out what Samba is up to. This is especially true when Samba is performing an unexpected action or is not performing at all. To find out this information, we need to check Samba’s log files to see exactly why it did what it did.
Samba log files can be as brief or verbose as you like. Here is an example of what a Samba log file looks like:
[2002/07/21 13:23:25, 3] smbd/service.c:close_cnum(514) maya (172.16.1.6) closed connection to service IPC$ [2002/07/21 13:23:25, 3] smbd/connection.c:yield_connection(40) Yielding connection to IPC$ [2002/07/21 13:23:25, 3] smbd/process.c:process_smb(615) Transaction 923 of length 49 [2002/07/21 13:23:25, 3] smbd/process.c:switch_message(448) switch message SMBread (pid 467) [2002/07/21 13:23:25, 3] lib/doscalls.c:dos_ChDir(336) dos_ChDir to /home/samba [2002/07/21 13:23:25, 3] smbd/reply.c:reply_read(2199) read fnum=4207 num=2820 nread=2820 [2002/07/21 13:23:25, 3] smbd/process.c:process_smb(615) Transaction 924 of length 55 [2002/07/21 13:23:25, 3] smbd/process.c:switch_message(448) switch message SMBreadbraw (pid 467) [2002/07/21 13:23:25, 3] smbd/reply.c:reply_readbraw(2053) readbraw fnum=4207 start=130820 max=1276 min=0 nread=1276 [2002/07/21 13:23:25, 3] smbd/process.c:process_smb(615) Transaction 925 of length 55 [2002/07/21 13:23:25, 3] smbd/process.c:switch_message(448) switch message SMBreadbraw (pid 467)
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