-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Colin Slade wrote:
> Hi there > > A quick question, as I've looked around but can't find it documented > anywhere. From the man page of smb.conf re. max log size : > > "Samba periodically checks the size and if it is exceeded it will rename > the file, adding a ".old" extension." > > Is there a way to set/change this time period ? > > The reason I ask is that during large (3-400MB) downloads to a samba > share I noticed that log files were growing up to 40 MB even although > the max log size is set to 500k. IIRC, the log rotation is handled in our idle loop. SMB packets are given priority so on a busy server the period will be longer than on an idle one. See smbd/process.c or something like that. cheers, jerry ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Hewlett-Packard ------------------------- http://www.hp.com SAMBA Team ---------------------- http://www.samba.org GnuPG Key ---- http://www.plainjoe.org/gpg_public.asc ISBN 0-672-32269-2 "SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours" 2ed "You can never go home again, Oatman, but I guess you can shop there." --John Cusack - "Grosse Point Blank" (1997) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://quantumlab.net/pine_privacy_guard/ iD8DBQE+Fau4IR7qMdg1EfYRAhI7AJ9bQJ2Cq3bvVVTGgQoPwGgWZKysngCdELV+ DdLIfsduTWpXoY8bMk8cFRE= =V40u -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----