.\" This manpage has been automatically generated by docbook2man-spec .\" from a DocBook document. docbook2man-spec can be found at: .\" <http://shell.ipoline.com/~elmert/hacks/docbook2X/> .\" Please send any bug reports, improvements, comments, patches, .\" etc. to Steve Cheng <steve@ggi-project.org>. .TH SMBRUN 1 "24 Mar 2001" "smbrun 2.2.0-alpha3" .SH NAME smbrun \- interface program between smbd and external programs .SH SYNOPSIS .sp \fBsmbrun\fR \fB<shell command>\fR .SH "DESCRIPTION" .PP This tool is part of the Sambasuite. .PP \fBsmbrun\fR is a very small 'glue' program, which runs shell commands for the \fB smbd(8)\fRdaemon. .PP It first changes to the highest effective user and group ID that it can, then runs the command line provided using the system() call. This program is necessary to allow some operating systems to run external programs as non-root. .SH "OPTIONS" .TP \fBshell command\fR The shell command to execute. The command should have a fully-qualified path. .SH "ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES" .PP The \fIPATH\fR variable set for the environment in which \fBsmbrun\fR is executed will affect what executables are located and executed if a fully-qualified path is not given in the command. .SH "DIAGNOSTICS" .PP If \fBsmbrun\fR cannot be located or cannot be executed by \fBsmbd(8)\fR , then appropriate messages will be found in the \fB smbd\fR logs. Other diagnostics are dependent on the shell-command being run. It is advisable for your shell commands to issue suitable diagnostics to aid trouble-shooting. .SH "VERSION" .PP This man page is correct for version 2.2 of the Samba suite. .SH "SEE ALSO" .PP \fBnmbd(8)\fR, \fBsmbclient(1) \fR.SH "AUTHOR" .PP The original Samba software and related utilities were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar to the way the Linux kernel is developed. .PP The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer. The man page sources were converted to YODL format (another excellent piece of Open Source software, available at ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/ <URL:ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/>) and updated for the Samba 2.0 release by Jeremy Allison. The conversion to DocBook for Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter