> We've encountered a few problems with popular utilities and languages
> interacting with AFS. When possible, we tried to contact the vendor
> ourselves but generally get nowhere. As a user community we could
> collect known problems and centralize this in some data base under AFS.
> I have been working with the folks at Transarc with the hope that they
> would appoint a "CZAR" who could represent our interests to the various
> vendors. What this person could do is to keep track of the reported problems,
> the number of reported complaints, report them to the appropriate
> vendor, and to maintain a current status of the problems.
> Are there others out there who would like to see this happen? Do you
> know any problems that you think others should know about or
> that you would like reported? If so, then please reply so that Transarc
> can get a feel of the level of interest. Here is a brief discription
> of the problems we encountered over the past several months:
This is a great idea.
> RSH : Under HPUX 9.01 this doesn't work.
Seems to work for me under HPUX 9.01 and AFS 3.2b. In AFS versions prior
to 3.2b, you had to rename the binary to 'remsh'. However, in versions prior
to 3.2, this would cause rsh to fail because it tests for argv[0].
RLOGIN: Does not work for HP's
> C++ : Things fail when the ptlink tries to move the resulting object
> into the "repository" directory, likely caused by ptlink using
> link and unlink. This fails in afs if the target is not in the
> same directory as the source.
This burns us too. We are forced to use 'CC -ptr/tmp'.
How about products also:
DYALOG APL by Dyadic on all Platforms:
Dyalog checks to see if an apl file is remote. It fails to see
afs as remote and consequently does not fsync after writes. This
causes shared file usage to become corrupted. The bug has been reported
to Dyadic who is working on a fix.
ORACLE 7.0.12 install on Suns:
Orinst fails with an 'unknown user while tring to get group' error
message. This is caused by the addition of the PAG to the users group
list. Exec /bin/login.old to avoid. A report was made with Oracle.
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