testparm: add a switch --skip-global-checks.

This allows for successfully calling testparm without the need
to "make install" before. Without this, testparm fails with
the message that the lock directory does not exist...

Michael
(This used to be commit eeb018fad65c19804a4e96ea949fc2c64883439e)

diff --git a/source3/utils/testparm.c b/source3/utils/testparm.c
index 03291fe35fa798a44d312f766828b86720c70823..018993ccf3b941f46340d75ce8b911581b5623fd 100644 (file)
--- a/source3/utils/testparm.c
+++ b/source3/utils/testparm.c
@@ -217,6 +217,7 @@ via the %%o substitution. With encrypted passwords this is not possible.\n", lp_
        const char *cname;
        const char *caddr;
        static int show_defaults;
+       static int skip_global_checks = 0;
 
        struct poptOption long_options[] = {
                POPT_AUTOHELP
@@ -224,6 +225,7 @@ via the %%o substitution. With encrypted passwords this is not possible.\n", lp_
                {"verbose", 'v', POPT_ARG_NONE, &show_defaults, 1, "Show default options too"},
                {"server", 'L',POPT_ARG_STRING, &new_local_machine, 0, "Set %%L macro to servername\n"},
                {"encoding", 't', POPT_ARG_STRING, &term_code, 0, "Print parameters with encoding"},
+               {"skip-global-checks", 'g', POPT_ARG_NONE, &skip_global_checks, 1, "Skip the global checks"},
                {"show-all-parameters", '\0', POPT_ARG_VAL, &show_all_parameters, True, "Show the parameters, type, possible values" },
                {"parameter-name", '\0', POPT_ARG_STRING, &parameter_name, 0, "Limit testparm to a named parameter" },
                {"section-name", '\0', POPT_ARG_STRING, &section_name, 0, "Limit testparm to a named section" },
@@ -276,7 +278,9 @@ via the %%o substitution. With encrypted passwords this is not possible.\n", lp_
 
        fprintf(stderr,"Loaded services file OK.\n");
 
-       ret = do_global_checks();
+       if (skip_global_checks == 0) {
+               ret = do_global_checks();
+       }
 
        for (s=0;s<1000;s++) {
                if (VALID_SNUM(s))