samba - Apr 2013 - nmbd broken in Centos 6.4

CentOS 6.4 appears to have been shipped with a broken Samba 3.6.  The new
NMBDSOCKETDIR option defaults to /var/nmbd, which of course is an invalid
directory and should not be created[1].  While hopefully they can fix it
with an option to their configure script at build time, could Samba itself
provide better defaults so that new options like this don't take OS
developers by surprise?


Moray.
"To err is human; to purr, feline."


[1] http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#THEVARHIERARCHY
"Applications must generally not add directories to the top level of
/var."

On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Moray Henderson <
Moray.Henderson at ict-software.org> wrote:
> CentOS 6.4 appears to have been shipped with a broken Samba 3.6.  The new
> NMBDSOCKETDIR option defaults to /var/nmbd, which of course is an invalid
> directory and should not be created[1].  While hopefully they can fix it
> with an option to their configure script at build time, could Samba itself
> provide better defaults so that new options like this don't take OS
> developers by surprise?
>
Thee are also the samba3x packages, which are a much more recent version,
and now the samba4x are getting much more current. In fact, if you want to
play with samba-4.0.5, I'd appreciate your tests of my Samba 4.0.5 backport
from Fedora to RHEL at https://github.com/nkadel/samba-4.0.5-srpm. I've
also got all the other necessary build components, like updated
libtevent libtalloc and hooks for an updated yum repository to support
them, at https://github.com/nkadel/.
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