Why does samba testparm show wrong 'log level'?

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Issue

  • Why does samba testparm show wrong 'log level'?

    In the following, 'testparm -sv' shows 'log level = 2' in spite of 'log level = 3' in smb.conf.

    # grep 'log level' /etc/samba/smb.conf
    log level = 3
    # testparm -sv 2> /dev/null | grep 'log level'
    log level = 2
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7
  • samba-common

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