Hi,

I’m looking into preventing the samba messages from appearing in the system log (/var/log/messages).

I added syslog = 0 to smb.conf and reloaded the config but messages are still appearing…

Please suggest or advise how to suppress logging or reconfigure samba such that the “nmbd” and “winbindd” messages do not appear in /var/log/messages.

S.

Disable the following line in /etc/smb.conf:

See if it works.........

Tah for the reply.

I'm guessing that would also disable standard samba logging though yes? eg. log.machine1 etc

I wish to allow samba logging to the standard samba logfiles, but prevent "/var/log/messages" getting clogged up by samba.

S.

Add the following line in /etc/syslog.conf file:

Don't forget to restart the syslog service.

Tah again,

I could have sworn that would have worked.
I tried the following
(and restarted the syslog via /sbin/service syslog restart)

# Suppress messages from samba.
nmbd.* /dev/null
smbd.* /dev/null
winbindd.* /dev/null

For interests sake the messages I'm getting are below (I'm not concerned about the messages themselves, I can chase them up at my leisure via the samba logs)

Mar 18 09:58:29 SERVER nmbd[3808]: query_name_response: Multiple (2) responses received for a query on subnet xx.yy.z.zz for name DOMAIN<1d>.
Mar 18 09:58:29 SERVER nmbd[3808]: This response was from IP xx.yy.z.zz, reporting an IP address of xx.yy.z.zz.

What can I try next?

S.