[Bug 529290] Re: logrotate script needs to be updated for Upstart conversion

[Simon Déziel]

The upstart job tries to start smbd in foreground mode but apparently
fails to do so :

standard input is not a socket, assuming -D option

Even if this foreground operation was to work, the man page says that
child processes will still be created. Those too need to be notified
about the log rotation IMO.

One of the possible solutions is to use smbcontrol to notify all related
daemons (smbd, nmbd and winbindd) :

smbcontrol all reload-config

This problem was apparently introduced in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-
bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=160076 where killall was removed from the
logrotate configuration.

** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #160076
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=160076

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Title:
  logrotate script needs to be updated for Upstart conversion

Status in “samba” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: samba

  /etc/logrotate.d/samba produces error output, because the smbd stanza
  calls 'invoke-rc.d --quiet samba reload > /dev/null' in a postrotate
  stanza (no stderr redirection, nor should there be).  This should be
  updated to use Upstart's facilities.  I suspect the same may go for
  the nmbd stanza, which currently calls '[ ! -f /var/run/samba/nmbd.pid
  ] || kill -HUP `cat /var/run/samba/nmbd.pid`'.

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