1 <html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>vfstest</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="samba.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.68.1"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="refentry" lang="en"><a name="vfstest.1"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>vfstest — tool for testing samba VFS modules </p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="cmdsynopsis"><p><code class="command">vfstest</code> [-d debuglevel] [-c command] [-l logdir] [-h]</p></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id2489057"></a><h2>DESCRIPTION</h2><p>This tool is part of the <a href="samba.7.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">samba</span>(7)</span></a> suite.</p><p><span><strong class="command">vfstest</strong></span> is a small command line
2 utility that has the ability to test dso samba VFS modules. It gives the
3 user the ability to call the various VFS functions manually and
4 supports cascaded VFS modules.
5 </p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id2450601"></a><h2>OPTIONS</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term">-c|--command=command</span></dt><dd><p>Execute the specified (colon-separated) commands.
6 See below for the commands that are available.
7 </p></dd><dt><span class="term">-h|--help</span></dt><dd><p>Print a summary of command line options.
8 </p></dd><dt><span class="term">-l|--logfile=logbasename</span></dt><dd><p>File name for log/debug files. The extension
9 <code class="constant">'.client'</code> will be appended. The log file is never removed
11 </p></dd><dt><span class="term">-V</span></dt><dd><p>Prints the program version number.
12 </p></dd><dt><span class="term">-s <configuration file></span></dt><dd><p>The file specified contains the
13 configuration details required by the server. The
14 information in this file includes server-specific
15 information such as what printcap file to use, as well
16 as descriptions of all the services that the server is
17 to provide. See <code class="filename">smb.conf</code> for more information.
18 The default configuration file name is determined at
19 compile time.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-d|--debuglevel=level</span></dt><dd><p><em class="replaceable"><code>level</code></em> is an integer
20 from 0 to 10. The default value if this parameter is
21 not specified is zero.</p><p>The higher this value, the more detail will be
22 logged to the log files about the activities of the
23 server. At level 0, only critical errors and serious
24 warnings will be logged. Level 1 is a reasonable level for
25 day-to-day running - it generates a small amount of
26 information about operations carried out.</p><p>Levels above 1 will generate considerable
27 amounts of log data, and should only be used when
28 investigating a problem. Levels above 3 are designed for
29 use only by developers and generate HUGE amounts of log
30 data, most of which is extremely cryptic.</p><p>Note that specifying this parameter here will
31 override the <a class="indexterm" name="id2450719"></a> parameter
32 in the <code class="filename">smb.conf</code> file.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-l|--logfile=logdirectory</span></dt><dd><p>Base directory name for log/debug files. The extension
33 <code class="constant">".progname"</code> will be appended (e.g. log.smbclient,
34 log.smbd, etc...). The log file is never removed by the client.
35 </p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id2450753"></a><h2>COMMANDS</h2><p><span class="emphasis"><em>VFS COMMANDS</em></span></p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc"><li><p><span><strong class="command">load <module.so></strong></span> - Load specified VFS module </p></li><li><p><span><strong class="command">populate <char> <size></strong></span> - Populate a data buffer with the specified data
36 </p></li><li><p><span><strong class="command">showdata [<offset> <len>]</strong></span> - Show data currently in data buffer
37 </p></li><li><p><span><strong class="command">connect</strong></span> - VFS connect()</p></li><li><p><span><strong class="command">disconnect</strong></span> - VFS disconnect()</p></li><li><p><span><strong class="command">disk_free</strong></span> - VFS disk_free()</p></li><li><p><span><strong class="command">opendir</strong></span> - VFS opendir()</p></li><li><p><span><strong class="command">readdir</strong></span> - VFS readdir()</p></li><li><p><span><strong class="command">mkdir</strong></span> - VFS mkdir()</p></li><li><p><span><strong class="command">rmdir</strong></span> - VFS rmdir()</p></li><li><p><span><strong class="command">closedir</strong></span> - VFS closedir()</p></li><li><p><span><strong class="command">open</strong></span> - VFS open()</p></li><li><p><span><strong class="command">close</strong></span> - VFS close()</p></li><li><p><span><strong class="command">read</strong></span> - VFS read()</p></li><li><p><span><strong class="command">write</strong></span> - VFS write()</p></li><li><p><span><strong class="command">lseek</strong></span> - VFS lseek()</p></li><li><p><span><strong class="command">rename</strong></span> - VFS rename()</p></li><li><p><span><strong class="command">fsync</strong></span> - VFS fsync()</p></li><li><p><span><strong class="command">stat</strong></span> - VFS stat()</p></li><li><p><span><strong class="command">fstat</strong></span> - VFS fstat()</p></li><li><p><span><strong class="command">lstat</strong></span> - VFS lstat()</p></li><li><p><span><strong class="command">unlink</strong></span> - VFS unlink()</p></li><li><p><span><strong class="command">chmod</strong></span> - VFS chmod()</p></li><li><p><span><strong class="command">fchmod</strong></span> - VFS fchmod()</p></li><li><p><span><strong class="command">chown</strong></span> - VFS chown()</p></li><li><p><span><strong class="command">fchown</strong></span> - VFS fchown()</p></li><li><p><span><strong class="command">chdir</strong></span> - VFS chdir()</p></li><li><p><span><strong class="command">getwd</strong></span> - VFS getwd()</p></li><li><p><span><strong class="command">utime</strong></span> - VFS utime()</p></li><li><p><span><strong class="command">ftruncate</strong></span> - VFS ftruncate()</p></li><li><p><span><strong class="command">lock</strong></span> - VFS lock()</p></li><li><p><span><strong class="command">symlink</strong></span> - VFS symlink()</p></li><li><p><span><strong class="command">readlink</strong></span> - VFS readlink()</p></li><li><p><span><strong class="command">link</strong></span> - VFS link()</p></li><li><p><span><strong class="command">mknod</strong></span> - VFS mknod()</p></li><li><p><span><strong class="command">realpath</strong></span> - VFS realpath()</p></li></ul></div><p><span class="emphasis"><em>GENERAL COMMANDS</em></span></p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc"><li><p><span><strong class="command">conf <smb.conf></strong></span> - Load a different configuration file</p></li><li><p><span><strong class="command">help [<command>]</strong></span> - Get list of commands or info about specified command</p></li><li><p><span><strong class="command">debuglevel <level></strong></span> - Set debug level</p></li><li><p><span><strong class="command">freemem</strong></span> - Free memory currently in use</p></li><li><p><span><strong class="command">exit</strong></span> - Exit vfstest</p></li></ul></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id2451445"></a><h2>VERSION</h2><p>This man page is correct for version 3.0 of the Samba
38 suite.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id2451456"></a><h2>AUTHOR</h2><p>The original Samba software and related utilities
39 were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed
40 by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar
41 to the way the Linux kernel is developed.</p><p>The vfstest man page was written by Jelmer Vernooij.</p></div></div></body></html>
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