Re: [OpenAFS] Recommended way to start up OpenAFS on Solaris 10?

[Derrick Brashear]

On Jan 29, 2010, at 5:56 AM, David Boyes <dbo...@sinenomine.net> wrote:


On 1/29/10 5:02 AM, "Atro Tossavainen"
<atro.tossavainen+open...@helsinki.fi> wrote:

Is everybody still writing their own SMF bits to start OpenAFS on
Solaris 10 without /etc/init.d bits, or is there already a Received
Way of doing this?

It's bothered me for some time that a basic infrastructure item like  
AFS is
distributed in a way that bypasses the OS software management system  
on most
platforms. I guess it's a time/resources thing, but still -- seems  
wrong,
somehow. It's not that hard to do, especially on Solaris and AIX.

I spent some time this week looking at why OpenAFS for Solaris isn't
distributed as a installable package instead of a tarball.


Long ago it was written, but it assumed Transarc paths, and was  
cumbersome to build. I suspect I know where it is. But it never went  
anywhere. My impression is the tools have improved.

I wrote some
scripting to do a proper Solaris SMF item for startup as part of the
post-install action in the package. If you have suggestions on the
implementation -- particularly what you think the canonical location  
for
files should be if you're not using Transarc paths -- let's share  
notes
off-list.

I'll try to get around to send this (and the AIX installp stuff)  
upstream at
some point in the future. Not a high priority for me at the moment.

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