samba - Jan 2023 - [4.13.13-Debian] " reopen_one_log: Unable to open new log file '/var/log/samba/': Is a directory"?

11.01.2023 12:48, Gilles via samba wrote:
> [2023/01/11 10:04:49.943723,? 0]
../../lib/util/debug.c:1104(reopen_one_log)
> reopen_one_log: Unable to open new log file '/var/log/samba/': Is a
directory
> smb.conf: log file = /var/log/samba/%m
some daemons work without client information, ie, they're not
client-specific.
These will try to open log files too. Without client info, "%m"
expands to
nothing, to an empty string. So you'll have the error message like that.

Fix your log file setting. Check what's the default for this.

/mjt

On 11/01/2023 09:55, Michael Tokarev via samba wrote:
> 11.01.2023 12:48, Gilles via samba wrote:
> 
>> [2023/01/11 10:04:49.943723,? 0] 
>> ../../lib/util/debug.c:1104(reopen_one_log)
>> reopen_one_log: Unable to open new log file '/var/log/samba/':
Is a
>> directory
> 
>> smb.conf: log file = /var/log/samba/%m
> 
> some daemons work without client information, ie, they're not 
> client-specific.
> These will try to open log files too. Without client info, "%m"
expands to
> nothing, to an empty string. So you'll have the error message like
that.
> 
> Fix your log file setting. Check what's the default for this.
> 
> /mjt
> 
> 
> 
There isn't a default and '%m' is supposed to work.

I think we need to see how the OP is running Samba, to do this, we need 
the output of 'testparm -s' or 'samba-tool testparm' if it is a
DC
(which it shouldn't be, because it looks like nmbd is running).

Rowland