What is "WARNING 'syslog' option is deprecated"?

Hi all have been trying to make a samba ubuntu server and I ran testparm and it came up with ---- WARNING "syslog" option is deprecated' ---- In smb.conf I have syslog set to 0 (I have no idea what that means) If anyone has any ideas. Thank Nic

The syntax you are looking for is: logging = syslog@1 /var/log/samba/log.%m

Just comment out or remove syslog = 0. The number is the severity mapping for which logs the errors go into. 0=> log_err, 1=> log_warning, 2=> log_notice.

The number parameter sets a threshold for sending messages to syslog. Only messages with debug level less than this value will be sent to syslog.

Default is 1. If you are setting up a development sandbox I would just whack that stuff unless you are having problems and need to see the logs.

I'm using Debian and the above syntax shows no errors running testparm.

I had the same warning. It went away when I commented out the line

syslog = 0

in the file smb.conf.