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  18 >smbrun</A
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  20 ><DIV
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  25 ><H2
  26 >Name</H2
  27 >smbrun&nbsp;--&nbsp;interface program between smbd and external
  28         programs</DIV
  29 ><DIV
  30 CLASS="REFSYNOPSISDIV"
  31 ><A
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  34 ><H2
  35 >Synopsis</H2
  36 ><P
  37 ><B
  38 CLASS="COMMAND"
  39 >smbrun</B
  40 >  {&lt;shell command&gt;}</P
  41 ></DIV
  42 ><DIV
  43 CLASS="REFSECT1"
  44 ><A
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  47 ><H2
  48 >DESCRIPTION</H2
  49 ><P
  50 >This tool is part of the <A
  51 HREF="samba.7.html"
  52 TARGET="_top"
  53 >       Samba</A
  54 > suite.</P
  55 ><P
  56 ><B
  57 CLASS="COMMAND"
  58 >smbrun</B
  59 > is a very small 'glue' program,
  60         which runs shell commands for the <A
  61 HREF="smbd.8.html"
  62 TARGET="_top"
  63 ><B
  64 CLASS="COMMAND"
  65 >       smbd(8)</B
  66 ></A
  67 > daemon.</P
  68 ><P
  69 >It first changes to the highest effective user and group
  70         ID that it can, then runs the command line provided using the
  71         system() call. This program is necessary to allow some operating
  72         systems to run external programs as non-root.</P
  73 ></DIV
  74 ><DIV
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  76 ><A
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  78 ></A
  79 ><H2
  80 >OPTIONS</H2
  81 ><P
  82 ></P
  83 ><DIV
  84 CLASS="VARIABLELIST"
  85 ><DL
  86 ><DT
  87 >shell command</DT
  88 ><DD
  89 ><P
  90 >The shell command to execute.  The
  91                 command should have a fully-qualified path.</P
  92 ></DD
  93 ></DL
  94 ></DIV
  95 ></DIV
  96 ><DIV
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 100 ></A
 101 ><H2
 102 >ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES</H2
 103 ><P
 104 >The <TT
 105 CLASS="PARAMETER"
 106 ><I
 107 >PATH</I
 108 ></TT
 109 > variable set for the
 110         environment in which <B
 111 CLASS="COMMAND"
 112 >smbrun</B
 113 > is executed will affect
 114         what executables are located and executed if a fully-qualified path
 115         is not given in the command.</P
 116 ></DIV
 117 ><DIV
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 119 ><A
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 121 ></A
 122 ><H2
 123 >DIAGNOSTICS</H2
 124 ><P
 125 >If <B
 126 CLASS="COMMAND"
 127 >smbrun</B
 128 > cannot be located or cannot
 129         be executed by <A
 130 HREF="smbd.8.html"
 131 TARGET="_top"
 132 ><B
 133 CLASS="COMMAND"
 134 >smbd(8)</B
 135 >
 136         </A
 137 >, then appropriate messages will be found in the <B
 138 CLASS="COMMAND"
 139 >       smbd</B
 140 > logs. Other diagnostics are dependent on the shell-command
 141         being run. It is advisable for your shell commands to issue suitable
 142         diagnostics to aid trouble-shooting.</P
 143 ></DIV
 144 ><DIV
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 146 ><A
 147 NAME="AEN40"
 148 ></A
 149 ><H2
 150 >VERSION</H2
 151 ><P
 152 >This man page is correct for version 2.2 of
 153         the Samba suite.</P
 154 ></DIV
 155 ><DIV
 156 CLASS="REFSECT1"
 157 ><A
 158 NAME="AEN43"
 159 ></A
 160 ><H2
 161 >SEE ALSO</H2
 162 ><P
 163 ><A
 164 HREF="nmbd.8.html"
 165 TARGET="_top"
 166 ><B
 167 CLASS="COMMAND"
 168 >nmbd(8)</B
 169 ></A
 170 >,
 171         <A
 172 HREF="smbclient.1.html"
 173 TARGET="_top"
 174 ><B
 175 CLASS="COMMAND"
 176 >smbclient(1)
 177         </B
 178 ></A
 179 >, and  <A
 180 HREF="nmblookup.1.html"
 181 TARGET="_top"
 182 >       <B
 183 CLASS="COMMAND"
 184 >nmblookup(1)</B
 185 ></A
 186 >
 187         </P
 188 ></DIV
 189 ><DIV
 190 CLASS="REFSECT1"
 191 ><A
 192 NAME="AEN52"
 193 ></A
 194 ><H2
 195 >AUTHOR</H2
 196 ><P
 197 >The original Samba software and related utilities
 198         were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed
 199         by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar
 200         to the way the Linux kernel is developed.</P
 201 ><P
 202 >The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer.
 203         The man page sources were converted to YODL format (another
 204         excellent piece of Open Source software, available at
 205         <A
 206 HREF="ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/"
 207 TARGET="_top"
 208 >       ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/</A
 209 >) and updated for the Samba 2.0
 210         release by Jeremy Allison.  The conversion to DocBook for
 211         Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter</P
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