Re: lenny migration, part 4,862: samba

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>]

On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, Emanoil Kotsev wrote:

> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> > /etc/samba/*
>
> Samba has some important stuff in /var/
> /var/lib/samba
> /var/run/samba
> /var/spool/samba
> /var/cache/samba
> /var/log/samba

  quite right, i'd forgotten about that, but as i read it, pretty much
all of that is transient content that will be (slowly?) regenerated as
samba starts to run on the new system.  if one looks at the relevant
contents of the samba-common package, one sees:

# dpkg --listfiles samba-common | grep /var
/var
/var/log
/var/log/samba
/var/cache
/var/cache/samba
/var/lib
/var/lib/samba
/var/run
/var/run/samba
#

so that's just creating new empty directories.  and as for the other
package:

# dpkg --listfiles samba | grep /var
/var
/var/spool
/var/spool/samba
/var/lib
/var/lib/samba
/var/lib/samba/printers
/var/lib/samba/printers/COLOR
/var/lib/samba/printers/W32MIPS
/var/lib/samba/printers/W32ALPHA
/var/lib/samba/printers/x64
/var/lib/samba/printers/W32X86
/var/lib/samba/printers/WIN40
/var/lib/samba/printers/IA64
/var/lib/samba/printers/W32PPC
#

so, technically, as long as i don't care about preserving the log
files or cache, i can pretty much forget all of that.  does that sound
about right?

rday
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