samba - Mar 2003 - What's the best method - probably simple

Hi all,
	I'm testing out a pdf printer script I'm writing on a live samba
system. I modify the script, but my changes do not seem to show up when I print.
It seems like samba is caching the script. I do not want to restart samba
(I'm guessing that will disconnect people), but I want to force samba to
re-read the new script. I'm guessing I can HUP whatever smb process is open
for the printer, but I'm not real sure how to find it.

Thanks,

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Christopher Barry
Manager of Information Systems
InfiniCon Systems
http://www.infiniconsys.com

this might be the blind leading the blind, but I think "restarting"
samba
will simply cause it to reread the smb.conf.  It will not disconnect the
users.  I had a similar question last week.

Jim Shaffer

-----Original Message-----
From: Barry, Christopher [mailto:cbarry@infiniconsys.com]
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 3:52 PM
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Subject: [Samba] What's the best method - probably simple


Hi all,
	I'm testing out a pdf printer script I'm writing on a live samba
system. I modify the script, but my changes do not seem to show up when I
print. It seems like samba is caching the script. I do not want to restart
samba (I'm guessing that will disconnect people), but I want to force samba
to re-read the new script. I'm guessing I can HUP whatever smb process is
open for the printer, but I'm not real sure how to find it.

Thanks,

--
Christopher Barry
Manager of Information Systems
InfiniCon Systems
http://www.infiniconsys.com

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On Monday, March 31, 2003 4:52 PM Barry, Christopher
wrote:
> Hi all,
> 	I'm testing out a pdf printer script I'm writing on a 
> live samba system. I modify the script, but my changes do not 
> seem to show up when I print. It seems like samba is caching 
> the script. I do not want to restart samba (I'm guessing that 
> will disconnect people), but I want to force samba to re-read 
> the new script. I'm guessing I can HUP whatever smb process 
> is open for the printer, but I'm not real sure how to find it.
Each time a job has finished spooling to samba, the destination of your
print command path for that print share will be run as is.  If you
change the contents of your "print command" script, the changes are
effective immediately.  The only thing that's really "cached" here
per
se is the path specified by print command (not the contents of the file
itself).  What leads you to believe that samba is running an older copy
of the script?  And yup, if you do change the path or anything else in
smb.conf and samba appears to have not "noticed", a HUP to the parent
smbd process will force samba to reread its configuration file without
dropping active connections.

~ Daniel








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