I'm happy to provide the first public release of "setcells". This is a
simple C program that reads one or more CellServDB files and updates the
running cache manager on an AFS client. I've tested it with Solaris, SunOS,
IRIX, and HP-UX with good results. We run this from cron to automatically
update the CellServDB on each of our 2000+ AFS clients. This makes moving,
adding, or retiring a database server, less painful. It also has enabled us
to create new cells and have the information automatically propogate to
each AFS client in our company. While it is possible to script this in
perl or somesuch, one advantage of setcells is that it doesn't rely on the
perl interpreter (which may not be installed on all systems) nor does it
rely on having access to any filesystems *in* AFS. It also never forks,
which makes it faster than any solution based upon fs_newcell.
You can download setcells from "http://people.qualcomm/garrett/setcells". I'd
be very interested in any feedback others may have.
-- Garrett D'Amore
