>
> 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
>
Seems to run on Solaris-X86 2.5.1, compiled with gcc 2.7.2.2.
Nice program!
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