Debian Bug report logs - #74951
samba; nmbd does not rename its log file

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Francesco Potorti` <pot@gnu.org>

To: Debian GNU/Linux bug list <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: samba; nmbd does not rename its log file

Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 13:36:06 +0200

Package: samba
Version: 2.0.7-3
Severity: normal

I have this in /etc/samba/smb.conf:
   max log size = 1000
which is the Debian default.

However, apparently nmbd does not honour it:
$ ls -l /var/log/nmb*
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root      6617007 Oct 17 13:27 nmb
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root      1028507 Jun 27 17:29 nmb.old.0
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root           30 Jun 18 06:50 nmb.old.1.gz
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         5967 May  2 05:38 nmb.old.2.gz
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         5951 Apr 30 06:19 nmb.old.3.gz
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         5924 Apr 23 02:04 nmb.old.4.gz
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         6065 Apr 15  2000 nmb.old.5.gz
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         5939 Apr  8  2000 nmb.old.6.gz


-- System Information
Debian Release: woody
Kernel Version: Linux pot 2.2.13 #17 Tue May 9 13:12:19 CEST 2000 i686 unknown

Versions of the packages samba depends on:
ii  libc6          2.1.95-1       GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
ii  libncurses5    5.0-7          Shared libraries for terminal handling
ii  libpam0g       0.72-12        Pluggable Authentication Modules library
ii  libreadline4   4.1-2          GNU readline and history libraries, run-time
ii  samba-common   2.0.7-3        Samba common files used by both the server a

Message #10 received at 74951@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Hubert Palme <palme@uni-wuppertal.de>

To: 74951@bugs.debian.org, 100686@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Same problem with smbd on Potato!

Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 15:25:55 +0200

Hi,

just found this bug report. Some days ago I reported the same bug for
smbd on Potato (#100686)...

Sincerely,
-- 
======================================================================
Hubert Palme         Bergische Universitaet-Gesamthochschule Wuppertal
                                      Computing  Center
                                      D-42097 Wuppertal
E-Mail: palme@uni-wuppertal.de             (Germany)
http://www.hrz.uni-wuppertal.de/hrz/personen/h_palme.html

Message #15 received at 74951-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: peloy@debian.org (Eloy A. Paris)

To: 74951-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#74951: fixed in samba 2.2.1-1

Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 15:09:38 -0400

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
samba, which has been installed in the Debian FTP archive:

smbclient_2.2.1-1_i386.deb
  to pool/main/s/samba/smbclient_2.2.1-1_i386.deb
swat_2.2.1-1_i386.deb
  to pool/main/s/samba/swat_2.2.1-1_i386.deb
samba_2.2.1-1_i386.deb
  to pool/main/s/samba/samba_2.2.1-1_i386.deb
smbfs_2.2.1-1_i386.deb
  to pool/main/s/samba/smbfs_2.2.1-1_i386.deb
samba_2.2.1-1.dsc
  to pool/main/s/samba/samba_2.2.1-1.dsc
samba_2.2.1-1.diff.gz
  to pool/main/s/samba/samba_2.2.1-1.diff.gz
samba-doc_2.2.1-1_all.deb
  to pool/main/s/samba/samba-doc_2.2.1-1_all.deb
samba_2.2.1.orig.tar.gz
  to pool/main/s/samba/samba_2.2.1.orig.tar.gz
samba-common_2.2.1-1_i386.deb
  to pool/main/s/samba/samba-common_2.2.1-1_i386.deb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 74951@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Eloy A. Paris <peloy@debian.org> (supplier of updated samba package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@debian.org)


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Format: 1.7
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 00:44:14 -0400
Source: samba
Binary: smbfs swat smbclient samba-common samba-doc samba
Architecture: source i386 all
Version: 2.2.1-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Eloy A. Paris <peloy@debian.org>
Changed-By: Eloy A. Paris <peloy@debian.org>
Description: 
 samba      - A LanManager like file and printer server for Unix.
 samba-common - Samba common files used by both the server and the client.
 samba-doc  - Samba documentation.
 smbclient  - A LanManager like simple client for Unix.
 smbfs      - mount and umount commands for the smbfs (for kernels >= than 2.2.
 swat       - Samba Web Administration Tool
Closes: 68842 74951 94774 95548 95777 97447 98518 102506 102518 103339
Changes: 
 samba (2.2.1-1) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * New upstream version.
     Closes: #103339: config.guess and config.sub update required.
     Closes: #98518: Samba 2.2 can't act as PDC for NT4/W2K due to
                     incompatibility with PAM.
     Closes: #97447: nmbd crashes due to bugs in DAVE 2.5.2.
     Closes: #95777: Samba 2.2 is unable to join or authenticate against
                     Samba 2.2 PDC domain.
     Closes: #68842: samba should use PAM for password changing (I
                     haven't personally tried this one, but it's been
                     advertised this works.)
     Closes: #102506: PAM account checking fails.
     Closes: #102518: Complains about unknown paramter "obey pam
                      restrictions"
     Closes: #94774: Build failure on PARISC machines.
   * Moved away from /etc/cron.weekly/samba for log file rotation.
     Now using logrotate.
     Closes: #95548: typo in /etc/cron.weekly/samba.
     Closes: #74951: nmbd does not rename its log file.
   * Removed Debian-specific addtosmbpass.8 man page since this script
     is not longer provided upstream. Users should use the smbpasswd
     program instead.
   * Updated sample /etc/samba/smb.conf to reflect the recent changes
     affecting handling of PAM authentication. Also updated
     /etc/pam.d/samba.
Files: 
 0c6317291dd0568ef2e270277a1b7f99 683 net optional samba_2.2.1-1.dsc
 486c80ba4b5c5e8ec37038ac8a3d2659 6118435 net optional samba_2.2.1.orig.tar.gz
 6cca89293fb39cca0ed35ef9b78ee937 37266 net optional samba_2.2.1-1.diff.gz
 b85111f685952da20bad5626eadaed5b 2083912 doc optional samba-doc_2.2.1-1_all.deb
 80e8fe82a6300075968e16cef1bd5f50 2128182 net optional samba_2.2.1-1_i386.deb
 05adbc1c9447e6af7349d4575d287754 760226 net optional samba-common_2.2.1-1_i386.deb
 b22fda97472cfbd3661e4efe01ce57b2 899832 net optional smbclient_2.2.1-1_i386.deb
 ab40f9598ce5f40dbdc3acdb162ae800 329774 net optional swat_2.2.1-1_i386.deb
 b1ba1254da28d5bde442e40bab8a92e1 569896 otherosfs optional smbfs_2.2.1-1_i386.deb

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