From b4e055499bc4c9a2dc2b8b9e1df35e0bfd2cead5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeremy Allison Date: Wed, 24 Dec 1997 09:33:06 +0000 Subject: Added docs for new signal handling functions. Jeremy. (This used to be commit 24fb57e7507338845c2075dbd6d86922b3f028ed) --- docs/manpages/nmbd.8 | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) (limited to 'docs/manpages/nmbd.8') 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 ) and to lower +the nmbd log level by sending it a SIGUSR2 (kill -USR2 ). 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 -- cgit