My /var/log/smb and /var/log/nmb files are never rotated.
When searching (altavista, google usenet, smb.conf manual, samba faq), I
found a reference about how the log rotation check is only done once every
hundred loggings and if your samba is rarely used it won't rotate, but the
logs will still grow.
I am using samba from a Debian package 2.0.7-3.
My config (/etc/samba/smb.conf) has:
max log size = 100
(This was changed a couple weeks ago, previously it was set to 1000.)
reed@pilchuck:~$ ls -l /var/log/{smb,nmb}*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18604205 Feb 15 17:40 /var/log/nmb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 44150 Feb 26 13:21 /var/log/smb
smb isn't ready to rotate but nmb is growing too large for me.
Should I start using an external log rotation utility?
Or what is the correct samba way to do it?
Thanks,
Jeremy C. Reed
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