Hello, We now have our samba server up & running. But it's on an old machine with an awfully loud harddrive. Pre-samba most of the time the box was idle & the harddrive managed to go into standby - thus sparing us from the din. When samba is running (even if no users are accessing shares) there are accesses every 5 mins or so - keeping the drive spinning continuously. I've redirected the log files to /dev/null & set log level = 0 & syslog only = 0. But it is still happening. Apart from killing syslogd - has anyone any ideas? Cheers, Robin. p.s. i'm not really bothered about logging from samba. i trust it!
"Marlow, Robin" wrote:> > Hello, > We now have our samba server up & running. But it's on an old > machine with an awfully loud harddrive. Pre-samba most of the time the box > was idle & the harddrive managed to go into standby - thus sparing us from > the din. When samba is running (even if no users are accessing shares) there > are accesses every 5 mins or so - keeping the drive spinning continuously. >Your machine is old, what about the harddrive? If it's old too you should keep it running otherwise it might break quite earlier.> I've redirected the log files to /dev/null & set log level = 0 & syslog > only = 0. But it is still happening. Apart from killing syslogd - has > anyone any ideas? >When you stop samba, the drive does go off? I guess you're running Linux... 1- Have you tried to do a "strace" on your Samba processes to see what they are doing? 2- You can perhaps do a few "ls -lu" in a few directories, like the locks directory, the logs, etc. The "-u" shows the last access time on each of your files. You can even cd in the samba directory and do : ls -lRu | grep "Apr 29 12" which would show file changed on Apr 29 between 12:00pm and 12:59pm... Depending on your Linux distribution, etc. Files might be hanging around in /var/..., /etc, /everywhere ... By the way, if this is a server ... spend 200$ and get another hard drive, you'll get 80GB at that price ;) Pierre B.
As I recall, samba is supposed to reread the smb.conf every so often, too. Joel On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 11:24:24AM +0100, Marlow, Robin wrote:> Hello, > We now have our samba server up & running. But it's on an old > machine with an awfully loud harddrive. Pre-samba most of the time the box > was idle & the harddrive managed to go into standby - thus sparing us from > the din. When samba is running (even if no users are accessing shares) there > are accesses every 5 mins or so - keeping the drive spinning continuously. > > I've redirected the log files to /dev/null & set log level = 0 & syslog > only = 0. But it is still happening. Apart from killing syslogd - has > anyone any ideas? > > Cheers, > > Robin. > > p.s. i'm not really bothered about logging from samba. i trust it! > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba