samba - Jul 2002 - Looking for a script to add/remove multiple shares from smb.conf

Has anyone ever written a script to remove individual shares from the 
smb.conf file? I am trying to put together a script that will add & 
remove multiple shares at once by giving a <sharelist as input to the 
script. 

Adding shares is easy because I can just append the shares to the 
smb.conf file, but removing individual share entries within the smb.conf 
file without messing up the syntax of the file is the tricky part. Any 
insights would be appreciated.  

Thanks,

This sounds like the sort of thing a sedoholic would find fun. 
Why not post an example of what you want to do.
I subscribe to the sed mailing list. I'll be happy to pass it along.
Joel
On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 07:35:03PM -0500, drew.arthur@mail.sprint.com
wrote:
> Has anyone ever written a script to remove individual shares from the 
> smb.conf file? I am trying to put together a script that will add & 
> remove multiple shares at once by giving a <sharelist as input to the 
> script. 
> 
> Adding shares is easy because I can just append the shares to the 
> smb.conf file, but removing individual share entries within the smb.conf 
> file without messing up the syntax of the file is the tricky part. Any 
> insights would be appreciated.  
> 
> Thanks, 
> 
> 
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On Mon, 29 Jul 2002 21:27:37 -0400
Joel Hammer <Joel@HammersHome.com> wrote:
> This sounds like the sort of thing a sedoholic would find fun. 
> Why not post an example of what you want to do.
And what about the even worse perl-o-maniacs? Not to mention the awklings?

;-)

Goetz

Those lesser breeds will simply have to wait their turn.
Joel

On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 08:57:27AM +0200, Goetz Rieger
wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Jul 2002 21:27:37 -0400
> Joel Hammer <Joel@HammersHome.com> wrote:
> 
> > This sounds like the sort of thing a sedoholic would find fun. 
> > Why not post an example of what you want to do.
> 
> And what about the even worse perl-o-maniacs? Not to mention the awklings?
> 
> ;-)
> 
> Goetz
> 
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I would like to easily add/remove share entries in the smb.conf file 
without removing or deleting lines that are not associated with that 
section. I use SWAT for single shares.  

[xxxuser] 
comment = xxxuser Testing 
path = /samba/xxxuser 
Read Only = NO 

[drew] 
comment = drew's tmp share
path = /tmp 

[testgroup] 
path = /samba/testgroup 
read only = No 

So, if I wanted to remove the [drew] share I guess I would just need to 
remove all lines including [drew] between the ending ] and the next 
beginning [ ? 
 

perl-o-maniacs, awklings, sedoholics.... I'll take what I can get. 

Here is a script that will find the entry "unix" in a file and then 
split the file. I could do something similar but I still end up with the 
remaining lines after "[drew]". 

#!/bin/ksh 
file="file1" 
while read -r xx 
do 
if [ "$xx" = "unix" ] 
then 
file="file2"; 
else 
echo "$xx" >> $file ; 
fi 
done < $1 

Thanks,

-----Original Message-----
From: Joel [mailto:Joel@HammersHome.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 5:48 AM
To: goetz.rieger; samba
Subject: Re: [Samba] Looking for a script to add/remove multiple shares
from smb.conf


Those lesser breeds will simply have to wait their turn.
Joel

On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 08:57:27AM +0200, Goetz Rieger
wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Jul 2002 21:27:37 -0400
> Joel Hammer <Joel@HammersHome.com> wrote:
> 
> > This sounds like the sort of thing a sedoholic would find fun. 
> > Why not post an example of what you want to do.
> 
> And what about the even worse perl-o-maniacs? Not to mention the 
awklings?
> 
> ;-)
> 
> Goetz
> 
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Hei,

On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 08:05:14 -0500
drew.arthur@mail.sprint.com wrote:
> I would like to easily add/remove share entries in the smb.conf file 
> without removing or deleting lines that are not associated with that 
> section. I use SWAT for single shares.  
Ok: Quick and dirty, but seems to work. Give it a try, but please be
careful. It leaves two blank lines, but that should not matter. And it
would delete shares which are commented out and which follow a share to
delete...

;-) 

Goetz

#!/usr/bin/perl

my $smbconf="smb.conf";
my @shares_to_delete=qw(printers homes);

open(SMBCONF, $smbconf);
open(SMBCONFNEW, ">smb.conf.new");

$a=join("", <SMBCONF>);

foreach $share (@shares_to_delete) {
$a =~ s/^\[$share\]([^^][^\[])*//gm;
}

print SMBCONFNEW "$a";

On Mon, 29 Jul 2002 drew.arthur@mail.sprint.com wrote:
> Has anyone ever written a script to remove individual shares from the 
> smb.conf file? I am trying to put together a script that will add & 
> remove multiple shares at once by giving a <sharelist as input to the 
> script. 
> 
> Adding shares is easy because I can just append the shares to the 
> smb.conf file, but removing individual share entries within the smb.conf 
> file without messing up the syntax of the file is the tricky part. Any 
> insights would be appreciated.  
See examples/misc/modify_samba_config.pl for a bare bones perl script.
May or may not be what you want.




cheers, jerry