Name
vfstest — tool for testing samba VFS modules
Synopsis
vfstest [-d debuglevel] [-c command] [-l logdir] [-h]
DESCRIPTION
This tool is part of the samba(7) suite.
vfstest is a small command line
utility that has the ability to test dso samba VFS modules. It gives the
user the ability to call the various VFS functions manually and
supports cascaded VFS modules.
OPTIONS
- -c|--command=command
Execute the specified (colon-separated) commands.
See below for the commands that are available.
- -h|--help
Print a summary of command line options.
- -l|--logfile=logbasename
File name for log/debug files. The extension
'.client' will be appended. The log file is never removed
by the client.
- -V
Prints the program version number.
- -s <configuration file>
The file specified contains the
configuration details required by the server. The
information in this file includes server-specific
information such as what printcap file to use, as well
as descriptions of all the services that the server is
to provide. See smb.conf for more information.
The default configuration file name is determined at
compile time.
- -d|--debuglevel=level
level is an integer
from 0 to 10. The default value if this parameter is
not specified is zero.
The higher this value, the more detail will be
logged to the log files about the activities of the
server. At level 0, only critical errors and serious
warnings will be logged. Level 1 is a reasonable level for
day-to-day running - it generates a small amount of
information about operations carried out.
Levels above 1 will generate considerable
amounts of log data, and should only be used when
investigating a problem. Levels above 3 are designed for
use only by developers and generate HUGE amounts of log
data, most of which is extremely cryptic.
Note that specifying this parameter here will
override the parameter
in the smb.conf file.
- -l|--logfile=logdirectory
Base directory name for log/debug files. The extension
".progname" will be appended (e.g. log.smbclient,
log.smbd, etc...). The log file is never removed by the client.
COMMANDS
VFS COMMANDS
load <module.so> - Load specified VFS module
populate <char> <size> - Populate a data buffer with the specified data
showdata [<offset> <len>] - Show data currently in data buffer
connect - VFS connect()
disconnect - VFS disconnect()
disk_free - VFS disk_free()
opendir - VFS opendir()
readdir - VFS readdir()
mkdir - VFS mkdir()
rmdir - VFS rmdir()
closedir - VFS closedir()
open - VFS open()
close - VFS close()
read - VFS read()
write - VFS write()
lseek - VFS lseek()
rename - VFS rename()
fsync - VFS fsync()
stat - VFS stat()
fstat - VFS fstat()
lstat - VFS lstat()
unlink - VFS unlink()
chmod - VFS chmod()
fchmod - VFS fchmod()
chown - VFS chown()
fchown - VFS fchown()
chdir - VFS chdir()
getwd - VFS getwd()
utime - VFS utime()
ftruncate - VFS ftruncate()
lock - VFS lock()
symlink - VFS symlink()
readlink - VFS readlink()
link - VFS link()
mknod - VFS mknod()
realpath - VFS realpath()
GENERAL COMMANDS
conf <smb.conf> - Load a different configuration file
help [<command>] - Get list of commands or info about specified command
debuglevel <level> - Set debug level
freemem - Free memory currently in use
exit - Exit vfstest
VERSION
This man page is correct for version 3.0 of the Samba
suite.
AUTHOR
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.
The vfstest man page was written by Jelmer Vernooij.