Public bug reported: After the log rotation, logrotate needs to notify all samba processes to release their open file descriptors on the log files.
The current logrotate configuration file does not do so and only notify the process that has it's PID stored /var/run/samba/. This is wrong as other child will keep logging to the "deleted" files and may use all the disk space. Those "deleted" files are not showing in ls output but they are still consuming space in the file system. I think the right solution to this bug would be to have logrotate to call "smbcontrol all reload-config". This solution was proposed by Andrew Bartlett, a Samba developer, in this email http://bugs.debian.org /cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=160076#25. I have confirmed that this problem affects Samba from Lucid to Natty at least. ** Affects: samba (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to samba in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/810736 Title: logrotate script needs to notify all samba processes when logs are rotated To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/samba/+bug/810736/+subscriptions -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs
