If you wish to use the system logger (
syslog ) in addition to or in place of the standard Samba logging file, Samba provides options for this as well. However, to use
syslog, the first thing you will have to do is make sure that Samba was built with the
configure
--with-syslog option. See Chapter 2 for more information on configuring and compiling Samba.
Once that is done, you will need to configure your
/etc/syslog.conf to accept logging information from Samba. If there is not already a
daemon.* entry in the
/etc/syslog.conf file, add the following:
daemon.* /var/log/daemon.log
This specifies that any logging information from system daemons will be stored in the
/var/log/daemon.log file. This is where the Samba information will be stored as well. From there, you can specify the following global option in your configuration file:
syslog = 2
This specifies that any logging messages with a level of 1 will be sent to both the
syslog and the Samba logging files. (The mappings to
syslog priorities are described in the upcoming section "syslog.") Let's assume that we set the regular
log
level option above to 4. Any logging messages with a level of 2, 3, or 4 will be sent to the Samba logging files, but not to the
syslog. Only level 1 logging messages will be sent to both. If the
syslog value exceeds the
log
level value, nothing will be written to the
syslog.
If you want to specify that messages be sent only to
syslog - and not to the standard Samba logging files - you can place this option in the configuration file:
syslog only = yes
If this is the case, any logging information above the number specified in the
syslog option will be discarded, just like the
log
level option.
