Re: [OpenAFS] CellServDB file update...

2006-05-16 Thread Rodney M Dyer
At 01:19 AM 5/16/2006, Marcus Watts wrote: From: Derrick J Brashear [EMAIL PROTECTED] it cannot, actually. it can cause every server to need to be restarted bjut the tokens in the client cache will still work after the new servers start This was not my experience, but I won't argue over

Re: [OpenAFS] CellServDB file update...

2006-05-16 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Tue, 16 May 2006, Marcus Watts wrote: Uh, when you're more sober -- why exactly do you *need* to change the CellServDB on your fileservers? This is definitely not a normal operational thing to do in the first place. My sobriety has nothing to do with his replacing CellServDBs being

Re: [OpenAFS] CellServDB file update...

2006-05-16 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Tue, 16 May 2006, Rodney M Dyer wrote: If internally the addhost/removehost commands do nothing more than edit the files themselves, like a text editor, then they are currently only practice policy. It sounds to me instead that they actually do more than edit the files, because you

Re: [OpenAFS] CellServDB file update...

2006-05-16 Thread Kevin Coffman
On 5/16/06, Derrick J Brashear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 16 May 2006, Marcus Watts wrote: Uh, when you're more sober -- why exactly do you *need* to change the CellServDB on your fileservers? This is definitely not a normal operational thing to do in the first place. My sobriety

Re: [OpenAFS] CellServDB file update...

2006-05-16 Thread Jeffrey Hutzelman
On Monday, May 15, 2006 10:57:27 PM -0400 Derrick J Brashear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 15 May 2006, Rodney M Dyer wrote: The AFS administration reference... http://www.openafs.org/pages/doc/AdminReference/auarf020.htm ...makes clear that CellServDB files should never be updated

Re: [OpenAFS] CellServDB file update...

2006-05-16 Thread Jeffrey Hutzelman
On Tuesday, May 16, 2006 02:20:21 AM -0400 Rodney M Dyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's certainly nice if the software does something right automatically when the server side CellServDB get changed. It sounds like Derrick did that, modulo a minor bug or so. It would also be nice if the

[OpenAFS] CellServDB file update...

2006-05-15 Thread Rodney M Dyer
The AFS administration reference... http://www.openafs.org/pages/doc/AdminReference/auarf020.htm ...makes clear that CellServDB files should never be updated by editing them with a text editor or I assume by the same token (no pun) simply copying new ones into place. The reference gives

Re: [OpenAFS] CellServDB file update...

2006-05-15 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Mon, 15 May 2006, Rodney M Dyer wrote: The AFS administration reference... http://www.openafs.org/pages/doc/AdminReference/auarf020.htm ...makes clear that CellServDB files should never be updated by editing them with a text editor or I assume by the same token (no pun) simply copying new

Re: [OpenAFS] CellServDB file update...

2006-05-15 Thread Rodney M Dyer
At 10:57 PM 5/15/2006, Derrick J Brashear wrote: Yup. There was a bug. It should have been fixed, but a deadlock was introduced (by me) in the afsconf package when CellServDB is reread. Broken 1.2.4 or so, fixed 1.2.11 or so, iirc. Since it appears that the operation of copying a new