On Tue, 2015-11-03 at 10:17 +0100, Noël Köthe wrote:
> Package: samba
> Version: 2:4.1.20+dfsg-1
> Severity: normal
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> running samba as a DC the logfile /var/log/samba/log.samba will
> always increase and fill up the /var partition because the logrotate
> file from samba debian/samba.logrotate in the source and
> /etc/logrotate.d/samba in the installation is missing
> an entry for this file.
>
> This should fix it (samba-ad-dc has no reload):
>
> debian/samba.logrotate
> /var/log/samba/log.samba {
> weekly
> missingok
> rotate 7
> postrotate
> /etc/init.d/samba-ad-dc restart > /dev/null
> endscript
> compress
> notifempty
> }
>
> /var/log/samba/log.smbd {
> ...
>
> Thx for fixing this small but disk filling bug.;)
We really shouldn't restart samba just to rotate the logs.
Try sending a SIGHUP instead. However, ideally we would patch a reopen
-logs command into smbcontrol, that would be nicer than sending a
signal.
Andrew Bartlett
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Andrew Bartlett http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Catalyst IT http://catalyst.net.nz/services/samba
