[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#1073969: Bug#1073969: samba: Referenced but unset environment variable evaluates to an empty string

[Michael Tokarev]

20.06.2024 21:45, Timo van Roermund wrote:
> Package: samba
> Version: 2:4.20.2+dfsg-2
> Severity: minor
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> The smbd and nmbd services throw the following warnings when they get started:
> 
> (smbd)[75315]: smbd.service: Referenced but unset environment variable evaluates to an empty string: SMBDOPTIONS
> (nmbd)[75101]: nmbd.service: Referenced but unset environment variable evaluates to an empty string: NMBDOPTIONS

It's interesting I never noticed these warnings, while I (re)started
the services countless number of times.

> This seems to be a known issue; see:
> 
> https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2023-December/138624.html
> 
> Would it be possible to silence these warnings using the solution mentioned in the link above?

I think the best approach here is to ship /etc/default/samba file in
debian with empty settings for all these variables.  I'll do it in
the next upload.

Thanks,

/mjt

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