On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 07:54:49PM +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> Quoting Luca Capello (l...@pca.it):

> >   Modify smb.conf to use WINS settings from DHCP?

> > Even if I chose "No", every time the machine is rebooted (or a DHCP
> > connection is renewed) an empty /etc/samba/dhcp.conf file is created.
> > This is particular annoying given that etckeeper always complains:

> >   ** etckeeper detected uncommitted changes in /etc prior to apt run
> >   ** Aborting apt run. Manually commit and restart.

> Hmmm, indeed. The /etc/dhcp3/dhclient-enter-hooks.d/samba hook is a
> little bit naive here...

> The attached (untested) patch should fix this by testing if the file
> to be created is non empty before putting it in place. Could you check
> this?

Nack.  The hook script *should* be naive; we don't want to add more
complexity here.

We can move the include file to /run instead.

(Also, checking whether the new file is non-zero in size before copying is
wrong.  When the new DHCP information no longer includes netbios settings,
we *need* to update the config with this fact.)

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