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author | Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org> | 1998-11-05 03:23:23 +0000 |
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committer | Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org> | 1998-11-05 03:23:23 +0000 |
commit | 227936ca256132542fd2107817d9042e42f4760d (patch) | |
tree | c4c246739a7ad8c7ccea588061eb91c7f925d421 /docs/yodldocs/nmbd.8.yo | |
parent | d72294605b595fe15cdf67aeb8ac1949069d91c0 (diff) | |
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Sync up changes to smbd.8.yo and nmbd.8.yo.
Jeremy.
(This used to be commit 889f26a5bceb99dc0c703060e8dbb51776b06492)
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diff --git a/docs/yodldocs/nmbd.8.yo b/docs/yodldocs/nmbd.8.yo index f241af1d0e..aadb70febc 100644 --- a/docs/yodldocs/nmbd.8.yo +++ b/docs/yodldocs/nmbd.8.yo @@ -116,8 +116,9 @@ em(/usr/samba/var/log.nmb) or em(/var/log/log.nmb). label(minusn) dit(bf(-n primary NetBIOS name)) This option allows you to override the NetBIOS name that Samba uses for itself. This is identical to -setting the bf(NetBIOS name) parameter in the smb.conf file -but will override the setting in the smb.conf file. +setting the url(bf(NetBIOS name))(smb.conf.5.html#netbiosname) parameter +in the url(bf(smb.conf))(smb.conf.5.html) file +but will override the setting in the url(bf(smb.conf))(smb.conf.5.html) file. label(minusp) dit(bf(-p UDP port number)) UDP port number is a positive integer value. @@ -132,7 +133,7 @@ set at build time, typically as em(/usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf), but this may be changed when Samba is autoconfigured. The file specified contains the configuration details required by the -server. See bf(smb.conf (5)) for more information. +server. See url(bf(smb.conf (5)))(smb.conf.5.html) for more information. label(minusi) dit(bf(-i scope)) This specifies a NetBIOS scope that the server will use @@ -168,17 +169,32 @@ This is the default location of the em(smb.conf) server configuration file. Other common places that systems install this file are em(/usr/samba/lib/smb.conf) and em(/etc/smb.conf). +When run as a bf(WINS) server (see the url(bf(wins support))(smb.conf.5.html#winssupport) +parameter in the url(bf(smb.conf (5)))(smb.conf.5.html) man page), bf(nmbd) will +store the WINS database in the file tt(wins.dat) in the tt(var/locks) directory +configured under wherever Samba was configured to install itself. + +If bf(nmbd) is acting as a bf(browse master) (see the url(bf(local master))(smb.conf.5.html#localmaster) +parameter in the url(bf(smb.conf (5)))(smb.conf.5.html) man page), bf(nmbd) will +store the browsing database in the file tt(browse.dat) in the tt(var/locks) directory +configured under wherever Samba was configured to install itself. + label(SIGNALS) manpagesection(SIGNALS) +To shut down an nmbd process it is recommended that SIGKILL (-9) +em(NOT) be used, except as a last resort, as this may leave the name +database in an inconsistant state. The correct way to terminate +nmbd is to send it a SIGTERM (-15) signal and wait for it to die on +its own. + nmbd will accept SIGHUP, which will cause it to dump out it's namelists into the file namelist.debug in the em(/usr/local/samba/var/locks) directory (or the em(var/locks) directory configured under wherever Samba was configured to install itself). This will also cause nmbd to dump out it's server database in -the log.nmb file. Also new in version 1.9.18 and above is the ability -to raise the debug log level of nmbd by sending it a SIGUSR1 (tt(kill --USR1 <nmbd-pid>)) and to lower the nmbd log level by sending it a +the log.nmb file. In addition, the the debug log level of nmbd may be raised +by sending it a SIGUSR1 (tt(kill -USR1 <nmbd-pid>)) and lowered by sending it a SIGUSR2 (tt(kill -USR2 <nmbd-pid>)). This is to allow transient problems to be diagnosed, whilst still running at a normally low log level. |