SAMBA / CIFS messages

[Rudy Williams]

Hello--

I am using smbclient every 8 minutes to put or get files from a Windows server. The script is run via cron and sends stdout and stderr to the same log file so cron does not send an email with the output.

Unfortunately, cron sends me an email message with this entry anyway:

Domain=[WINDOMAIN] OS=[Windows Server 2003 3790 Service Pack 2] Server=[Windows Server 2003 5.2]

Is there some way to tell SAMBA/CIFS to be quiet so that I am not receive this message every 8 minutes?

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

1) take a look at the cron entry. Maybe the output is going to | mailx and it should go to /dev/null

2) Take a look at smb.conf see if the log level is turned up. Change it to zero. Restart the service.

If this does nto work, I am out of ideas.

SEP

[Denver Osborn]

Can you cut/paste your crontab entry? Also, as SEP suggested, look at you smb.conf to see what log level is set to.

Chances are good there's a problem with your crontab entry as you said it redirs stdout and stderr to the same log... but if it did, you shouldn't get the output emailed when the job runs.

-denver

[Rudy Williams]

The cron entry is just the script. So any stdout or stderr will be sent to root by email.

I think that I have found the source of the text. After more research, not all of the scripts are producing the dreaded output, only half of them. There is one "smbclient" line in which the stderr is not redirected to a file:

smbclient "$share" "$pass" -D "$ntdir" -c "$command" | awk '{print $1}' \
| egrep "^u[0-9]+$" > $tmp

I will append " 2>&1 " and test. Stay tuned...