I've also had many troubles with preexec and root preexec not working for 
some reason in Samba 2.2. I've tried higher log levels, but did not see 
anything as far as I could tell. root preexec used to work for me, now it 
doesn't...I wonder what's up?

- Kris Jordan -

At 01:35 PM 3/22/2002, Mikael Olenfalk wrote:
>Hi!
>
>in my smb.conf file, added the line
>
>[statistics]
>         ...
>+       preexec = /bin/bash /home/scripts/stats /home/statistics
>         ...
>
>to be executed before I enter the [statistics] share, due to some error
>or misconfiguration though, the command is *NOT* executed. The script
>itself works
>perfectly because when I type:
>
># /home/scripts/stats /home/statistics
>
>the script is executed correctly (it creates to files in the folder
>/home/statistics) even the line
>
># /bin/bash /home/scripts/stats /home/statistics
>
>executes correctly. The scripts has owner nobody.nogroup, so there
>should be no problems with permissions, I've run an "chmod o+x" (and
>desperate chmod 777 ...) over the script, but both with no effect.
>
>Smbd has become sighup'ped repeatedly (kill -HUP $(pidof smbd)) and the
>log says that smbd has received and HUP signal.
>
>
>/mikael
>
>
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