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diff --git a/docs/manpages/nmbd.8 b/docs/manpages/nmbd.8 index ce530eb620..639b4472f0 100644 --- a/docs/manpages/nmbd.8 +++ b/docs/manpages/nmbd.8 @@ -216,6 +216,17 @@ See .BR smb.conf (5) for more information. .RE +.SH SIGNALS + +In version 1.9.18 and above, nmbd will accept SIGHUP, which will cause it to dump out +it's namelists into the file namelist.debug in the SAMBA/var/locks directory. 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 (kill -USR1 <nmbd-pid>) and to lower +the nmbd log level by sending it a SIGUSR2 (kill -USR2 <nmbd-pid>). This +is to allow transient problems to be diagnosed, whilst still running at +a normally low log level. + .SH VERSION This man page is (mostly) correct for version 1.9.16 of the Samba |