samba - Jun 1999 - Error Messages on Terminal

I am using Samba for print serving on a home network that consists of
one Win98 machine and one running Red Hat 6.  I am getting along well
but have come up against a problem I don't know how to solve.

On the linux machine where samba is running, when I am in a text based
terminal (doesn't show in KDE) I get various nmbd messages scrolling
across my screen, messages that look like nmbd doing its thing.  I would
think that these should be going to a log file instead of on to the
screen. where they display right over top of midnight commmander.  They
disappear when I type "clear".

My hunch is that there is a debug level turned on relating to nmbd that
produces these messages and then some other setting that makes them come
up on the screen rather than in a log file.  But then again, I don't
really know.

Any ideas?

Ken Walker
kwalker@island.net

On 7 Jun 99, Ken Walker <kwalker@island.net> had questions about 
Error Messages on Terminal:  

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> On the linux machine where samba is running, when I am in a text based
> terminal (doesn't show in KDE) I get various nmbd messages scrolling
> across my screen, messages that look like nmbd doing its thing.  I would
> think that these should be going to a log file instead of on to the
> screen. where they display right over top of midnight commmander.  They
> disappear when I type "clear".
Check /etc/syslog.conf and see where daemon and kernel messages are 
going (ie, /dev/console, /var/log/messages, etc).  If there's only 
kernel messages going to the console, then try turning down the 
debug level of nmbd.  Are you running the latest RH6 rpm of samba 
2.0.4, or did you compile it yourself?  Maybe something is hinky in 
the makefile?

Steve

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