Logwatch puzzles
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Sat Apr 8 13:14:24 UTC 2006
On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 10:27 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> This box runs samba in order to serve up a public directory. I'm seeing many
> lines in Logwatch that do not appear in the main server Logwatch, and trying
> to understand what is causing them. I find this puzzling, for instance:
>
> nmbd/nmbd_incomingrequests.c:process_name_query_request(454)
> process_name_query_request: Name query from 192.168.0.80 on subnet
> 192.168.0.70 for name LYDGATE.LAN<1d> : 91 Time(s)
>
> 192.168.0.70 is this box, and 192.168.0.80 was active for a considerable time
> yesterday, but "on subnet 192.168.0.70" sounds odd?
>
> There are other lines that seem to suggest that it is trying to connect to a
> windows active domain. There is a W2K box on the lan, for which I have no
> access, so can't answer for its configuration, but again, I don't see any
> such lines on the main server Logwatch.
>
> Both boxes have Logwatch set to level Low.
>
> I've tried googling, but although I've found dozens of entries with similar
> phrases, none that I've read so far seem to fit my circumstances. What I
> really need now is some suggestions for troubleshooting this. I know I could
> just ignore them, but among all that crud there could be hiding something
> that I need to see, but would miss.
----
yeah it does sound odd but perusing /var/log/samba/nmbd.log on a few
servers - including those with multiple ip addresses shows that this is
the terminology used in samba logging. I suppose to answer definitively,
one would go through the source code.
Craig
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