1 .TH SMBRUN 1 "09 Oct 2000" "smbrun 2.2.0-alpha0"
4 smbrun \- interface program between smbd and external programs
8 \fBsmbrun\fP shell-command
12 This program is part of the \fBSamba\fP suite\&.
14 \fBsmbrun\fP is a very small \'glue\' program, which runs shell commands
15 for the \fBsmbd\fP daemon \fBsmbd
18 It first changes to the highest effective user and group ID that it
19 can, then runs the command line provided using the system() call\&. This
20 program is necessary to allow some operating systems to run external
21 programs as non-root\&.
26 .IP "\fBshell-command\fP"
27 The shell command to execute\&. The command
28 should have a fully-qualified path\&.
31 .SH "ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES"
33 The \fIPATH\fP variable set for the environment in which \fBsmbrun\fP is
34 executed will affect what executables are located and executed if a
35 fully-qualified path is not given in the command\&.
39 If \fBsmbrun\fP cannot be located or cannot be executed by
40 \fBsmbd\fP then appropriate messages will be found in
41 the \fBsmbd\fP logs\&. Other diagnostics are dependent
42 on the shell-command being run\&. It is advisable for your shell
43 commands to issue suitable diagnostics to aid trouble-shooting\&.
47 This man page is correct for version 2\&.0 of the Samba suite\&.
51 \fBsmb\&.conf (5)\fP, \fBsmbd (8)\fP
55 The original Samba software and related utilities were created by
56 Andrew Tridgell samba@samba\&.org\&. Samba is now developed
57 by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar to the way the
58 Linux kernel is developed\&.
60 The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer\&. The man page
61 sources were converted to YODL format (another excellent piece of Open
62 Source software, available at
63 \fBftp://ftp\&.icce\&.rug\&.nl/pub/unix/\fP)
64 and updated for the Samba2\&.0 release by Jeremy Allison\&.
67 See \fBsamba (7)\fP to find out how to get a full
68 list of contributors and details on how to submit bug reports,