Bug 28919

Summary:	samba logrotate bug fills the partition limit
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux Beta	Reporter:	Aleksey Nogin <aleksey>
Component:	samba	Assignee:	Jay Fenlason <fenlason>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Priority:	high
Version:	beta1	CC:	dave.habben, dr, jfeeney, nphilipp
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Description Aleksey Nogin 2001-02-22 20:37:12 UTC

The logrotate bug in samba-2.0.7-4 (as documented in bug #12832 and bug
#6998) caused samba log file to start multiply exponentially. This
exponential multiplication causes the number of files in /var/log/samba to
reach the filesystem maximal number of files limit. This means that it
becomes impossible for the system to create new files in /var partition
which creates problems with logging, mail delivery, etc. I know that the
logrotate problem is solved in Rawhide (and possibly - RedHat 7), but this
problem is very serious and warrants an Errata update for earlier versions
of RedHat. And you have to hurry - my guess is that in a few weeks
everybody who upgraded early will start hitting the #of files limit.

Comment 1 Aleksey Nogin 2001-02-22 20:39:56 UTC

Sorry, I meant bug #9909 and bug #12832

Comment 2 John Newbigin 2001-02-22 22:48:55 UTC

slocate will fail to build it's database when the file names get too long.  There is probably a bug in slocate too.

Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 2001-05-15 21:29:36 UTC

This should be fixed with the new errata release.

Comment 4 Nils Philippsen 2003-07-25 13:52:10 UTC

This is likely to happen again with new Samba as of samba-3.0.0-1beta3 (log
files specified as log.%m instead of %m.log in smb.conf).

Comment 5 Dave Habben 2003-10-21 14:04:15 UTC

Does this bug still apply to the latest beta?

# rpm -qa samba
samba-3.0.0-15

From: /etc/samba/smb.conf
log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
max log size = 50

From: /etc/logrotate.d/samba
/var/log/samba/*.log {
    notifempty
    missingok
    sharedscripts
    copytruncate
    postrotate
        /bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/smbd.pid /var/run/nmbd.pid
/var/run/winbindd.pid 2> /dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true
    endscript
}