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6 .TH SMBRUN 1 "24 Mar 2001" "smbrun 2.2.0-alpha3"
8 smbrun \- interface program between smbd and external programs
11 \fBsmbrun\fR \fB<shell command>\fR
14 This tool is part of the Sambasuite.
16 \fBsmbrun\fR is a very small 'glue' program,
17 which runs shell commands for the \fB smbd(8)\fRdaemon.
19 It first changes to the highest effective user and group
20 ID that it can, then runs the command line provided using the
21 system() call. This program is necessary to allow some operating
22 systems to run external programs as non-root.
26 The shell command to execute. The
27 command should have a fully-qualified path.
28 .SH "ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES"
30 The \fIPATH\fR variable set for the
31 environment in which \fBsmbrun\fR is executed will affect
32 what executables are located and executed if a fully-qualified path
33 is not given in the command.
36 If \fBsmbrun\fR cannot be located or cannot
37 be executed by \fBsmbd(8)\fR
38 , then appropriate messages will be found in the \fB smbd\fR logs. Other diagnostics are dependent on the shell-command
39 being run. It is advisable for your shell commands to issue suitable
40 diagnostics to aid trouble-shooting.
43 This man page is correct for version 2.2 of
51 The original Samba software and related utilities
52 were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed
53 by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar
54 to the way the Linux kernel is developed.
56 The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer.
57 The man page sources were converted to YODL format (another
58 excellent piece of Open Source software, available at
59 ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/ <URL:ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/>) and updated for the Samba 2.0
60 release by Jeremy Allison. The conversion to DocBook for
61 Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter