Re: [OpenAFS] UDPATE: URGENT: Woody upgrade breaks openAFS

2001-12-14 Thread Andrew Perrin
Thanks to Sam Hartman, Todd Lewis, and Derek Atkins, I've figured this out. For some reason, when I did the make-kpkg modules_image before, the package was actually not recompiled -- perhaps because of a timestamp issue, but I don't know for sure. Here's what I did to fix it: cd

[OpenAFS] 'diskless' clients with AFS in Linux initrd

2001-12-14 Thread Cees de Groot
('diskless' means 'without any local state' :-)) I was wondering whether it was doable/feasible/sensible or downright stupid to use Linux' initrd feature to: - start AFS from the initrd disk - have a dummy root filesystem on the local disk, with just symlinks into AFS (some of them made during

[OpenAFS] Commercial Support for OpenAFS

2001-12-14 Thread Andrig T. Miller
I was wondering if anyone knows if anyone is selling commercial support contracts for OpenAFS? If not, what are the support options? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Andrig T. Miller ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OpenAFS] Couldn't get CPS for AnyUser...

2001-12-14 Thread Kevin Coffman
Looks like a security problem while the fileserver is trying to talk to the volume location server (vlserver). Does the fileserver have the correct keyfile? Hi everybody, I'm getting this error messages when starting the fileserver process: . . Fri Dec 14 13:49:19 2001 Creating new

RE: [OpenAFS] Couldn't get CPS for AnyUser...

2001-12-14 Thread Nicolescu, Edward L
Thanks for the hints. In the end , the culprit was a wrong KeyFile on the server I continue to remain amazed at how fast one can get valuable advice on this list Thanks again. Edward -Original Message- From: Derrick J Brashear [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday,

RE: [OpenAFS] Couldn't get CPS for AnyUser...

2001-12-14 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, Nicolescu, Edward L wrote: Thanks for the hints. In the end , the culprit was a wrong KeyFile on the server which means that i should have looked at the error code. oops:-) but i stick by: On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, Kevin Coffman wrote: Looks like a security

Re: [OpenAFS] 'diskless' clients with AFS in Linux initrd

2001-12-14 Thread Cees de Groot
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Offhand, this seems like a bad idea. Virtually all programs in a running Linux system are demand-paged from disk. Imagine for a moment what would happen if the fileserver on which init lived went away, thereby preventing init from being paged in. The same for any

Re: [OpenAFS] determining what machines access a volume

2001-12-14 Thread Nathan Neulinger
Matthew N. Andrews wrote: Hello, Is there any way to log what machines are accessing a particular volume on a fileserver? We are trying to remove some old outdated software volumes from our site, but 'vos exa' indicates that they are still periodically used. we'd like to be able to

[OpenAFS] determining what machines access a volume

2001-12-14 Thread Matthew N. Andrews
Hello, Is there any way to log what machines are accessing a particular volume on a fileserver? We are trying to remove some old outdated software volumes from our site, but 'vos exa' indicates that they are still periodically used. we'd like to be able to find out who's using them, and help

Re: [OpenAFS] 'diskless' clients with AFS in Linux initrd

2001-12-14 Thread Derek Atkins
Jeffrey Hutzelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I also have no confidence at the moment that AFS still works in the initrd environment. While an initrd is in use, kernel startup has not completely finished. I used to support installing RedHat systems via AFS, but had to stop doing that with