[Samba] why both smbd.log and log.smbd?

Our smb.conf file contains:

log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log

yet the /var/log/samba directory has all of these:

smbd.log
log.smbd
nmbd.log
log.nmbd

I verified that the %m.log forms are from the log file line by
temporarily changing it to foo_%m.log. Using "lsof" I was able to see
that the log.%m forms are from the smbd and nbmd processes.

Why are these other two forms, which do not respect the "log file"
setting, present?

Thanks,

David Mathog
mathog@caltech.edu
Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech
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If you look at the contents of those files, they contain
the messages that go out before smb.conf is parsed. Those
are the compiled in default names.

David Mathog wrote:
> Our smb.conf file contains:
>
> log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
>
> yet the /var/log/samba directory has all of these:
>
> smbd.log
> log.smbd
> nmbd.log
> log.nmbd
>
> I verified that the %m.log forms are from the log file line by
> temporarily changing it to foo_%m.log. Using "lsof" I was able to see
> that the log.%m forms are from the smbd and nbmd processes.
>
> Why are these other two forms, which do not respect the "log file"
> setting, present?
>
> Thanks,
>
> David Mathog
> mathog@caltech.edu
> Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech
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On Thursday 04 September 2008 17:47:59 David Mathog wrote:
> Our smb.conf file contains:
>
> log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
>
> yet the /var/log/samba directory has all of these:
>
> smbd.log
> log.smbd
> nmbd.log
> log.nmbd
>
> I verified that the %m.log forms are from the log file line by
> temporarily changing it to foo_%m.log. Using "lsof" I was able to see
> that the log.%m forms are from the smbd and nbmd processes.
>
> Why are these other two forms, which do not respect the "log file"
> setting, present?

Because the log.smbd and log.nmbd are created before the daemons have fully
parsed smb.conf, so the "log file=
parameter has not yet been acted upon.

- John T.
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