[Bug 313240] Re: Directory /var/log/samba missing, no logs written

[Will]

I have this problem too.

I think it might be because I didn't realise I had samba installed
So I installed samba4 in Ubuntu 12.04
Realised that was the wrong thing to do
Purged samba4

I think that might have removed /var/log/samba

I restarted smbd
I now see /var/log/samba/log.smbd

Phew!

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Title:
  Directory /var/log/samba missing, no logs written

Status in “samba” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Hi,

  first of all: I'm not sure whether "samba" is really the responsible
  package or whether a related one should take care of this. Please
  reassign this as required.

  Having a running samba (2:3.2.3-1ubuntu3.3) server on Ubuntu 8.10
  Server, I wondered why there were no logs written by its daemons.
  According to the smb.conf (which I didn't modify regarding this
  parameter), the logs should be written to /var/log/samba, but that
  directory did not exist. Having created it and having restarted Samba
  through /etc/init.d/samba restart, I found a couple of log files there
  as I expected to find them.

  --> In some way I would expect that log directory to be created
  automatically (probably by the package installation). Is it intended
  to let the system admin create it manually? If yes, why? If not, could
  you please adjust the installation accordingly?

  Thanks and best regards
  Heiko

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