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 V1.71.0"></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="literal">vfstest</code> [-d debuglevel] [-c command] [-l logdir] [-h]</p></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id259321"></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><code class="literal">vfstest</code> 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="id259564"></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 10 by the client. 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 13configuration details required by the server. The 14information in this file includes server-specific 15information such as what printcap file to use, as well 16as descriptions of all the services that the server is 17to provide. See <code class="filename">smb.conf</code> for more information. 18The default configuration file name is determined at 19compile time.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-d|--debuglevel=level</span></dt><dd><p><em class="replaceable"><code>level</code></em> is an integer 20from 0 to 10. The default value if this parameter is 21not specified is zero.</p><p>The higher this value, the more detail will be 22logged to the log files about the activities of the 23server. At level 0, only critical errors and serious 24warnings will be logged. Level 1 is a reasonable level for 25day-to-day running - it generates a small amount of 26information about operations carried out.</p><p>Levels above 1 will generate considerable 27amounts of log data, and should only be used when 28investigating a problem. Levels above 3 are designed for 29use only by developers and generate HUGE amounts of log 30data, most of which is extremely cryptic.</p><p>Note that specifying this parameter here will 31override the <a class="indexterm" name="id259419"></a> parameter 32in 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, 34log.smbd, etc...). The log file is never removed by the client. 35</p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id260367"></a><h2>COMMANDS</h2><p><span class="emphasis"><em>VFS COMMANDS</em></span></p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc"><li><p><code class="literal">load <module.so></code> - Load specified VFS module </p></li><li><p><code class="literal">populate <char> <size></code> - Populate a data buffer with the specified data 36 </p></li><li><p><code class="literal">showdata [<offset> <len>]</code> - Show data currently in data buffer 37 </p></li><li><p><code class="literal">connect</code> - VFS connect()</p></li><li><p><code class="literal">disconnect</code> - VFS disconnect()</p></li><li><p><code class="literal">disk_free</code> - VFS disk_free()</p></li><li><p><code class="literal">opendir</code> - VFS opendir()</p></li><li><p><code class="literal">readdir</code> - VFS readdir()</p></li><li><p><code class="literal">mkdir</code> - VFS mkdir()</p></li><li><p><code class="literal">rmdir</code> - VFS rmdir()</p></li><li><p><code class="literal">closedir</code> - VFS closedir()</p></li><li><p><code class="literal">open</code> - VFS open()</p></li><li><p><code class="literal">close</code> - VFS close()</p></li><li><p><code class="literal">read</code> - VFS read()</p></li><li><p><code class="literal">write</code> - VFS write()</p></li><li><p><code class="literal">lseek</code> - VFS lseek()</p></li><li><p><code class="literal">rename</code> - VFS rename()</p></li><li><p><code class="literal">fsync</code> - VFS fsync()</p></li><li><p><code class="literal">stat</code> - VFS stat()</p></li><li><p><code class="literal">fstat</code> - VFS fstat()</p></li><li><p><code class="literal">lstat</code> - VFS lstat()</p></li><li><p><code class="literal">unlink</code> - VFS unlink()</p></li><li><p><code class="literal">chmod</code> - VFS chmod()</p></li><li><p><code class="literal">fchmod</code> - VFS fchmod()</p></li><li><p><code class="literal">chown</code> - VFS chown()</p></li><li><p><code class="literal">fchown</code> - VFS fchown()</p></li><li><p><code class="literal">chdir</code> - VFS chdir()</p></li><li><p><code class="literal">getwd</code> - VFS getwd()</p></li><li><p><code class="literal">utime</code> - VFS utime()</p></li><li><p><code class="literal">ftruncate</code> - VFS ftruncate()</p></li><li><p><code class="literal">lock</code> - VFS lock()</p></li><li><p><code class="literal">symlink</code> - VFS symlink()</p></li><li><p><code class="literal">readlink</code> - VFS readlink()</p></li><li><p><code class="literal">link</code> - VFS link()</p></li><li><p><code class="literal">mknod</code> - VFS mknod()</p></li><li><p><code class="literal">realpath</code> - VFS realpath()</p></li></ul></div><p><span class="emphasis"><em>GENERAL COMMANDS</em></span></p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc"><li><p><code class="literal">conf <smb.conf></code> - Load a different configuration file</p></li><li><p><code class="literal">help [<command>]</code> - Get list of commands or info about specified command</p></li><li><p><code class="literal">debuglevel <level></code> - Set debug level</p></li><li><p><code class="literal">freemem</code> - Free memory currently in use</p></li><li><p><code class="literal">exit</code> - Exit vfstest</p></li></ul></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id300629"></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="id300639"></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> 42