On Wed, 2 Feb 1994 11:46:57 -0500 (EST) you wrote:
>We are using AFS 3.2b with AIX 3.2.4.
>
>We have found that items started at boot time from /etc/rc.local which
>depend on files in AFS often (but not always) fail to start.
>
>For example:
>
>if [ -x /usr/local/X11R5/bin/xdm -a -f /usr/local/xdmR5/xdm-config ] ; t
>hen
> su root "-c /usr/local/X11R5/bin/xdm -config /usr/local/xdmR5/xd
>m-config"
>fi
>
>almost always fails to execute. That is, one of the files in the 'if'
>expression is not found.
>
>This is in spite of the fact that afs is started _long_ before
>rc.local is run. This is the first part of our /etc/inittab:
>
>init:2:initdefault:
>brc::sysinit:/sbin/rc.boot 3 >/dev/console 2>&1 # Phase 3 of system boot
>powerfail::powerfail:/etc/rc.powerfail >/dev/console 2>&1 # d51225
>rc:2:wait:/etc/rc > /dev/console 2>&1 # Multi-User checks
>fbcheck:2:wait:/usr/lib/dwm/fbcheck >/dev/console 2>&1 # run /etc/firstboot
>rcafs:2:wait:/etc/start_afs > /dev/console 2>&1 # Start AFS daemons
>srcmstr:2:respawn:/etc/srcmstr # System Resource Controller
>rctcpip:2:wait:/etc/rc.tcpip > /dev/console 2>&1 # Start TCP/IP daemons
>rcnfs:2:wait:/etc/rc.nfs > /dev/console 2>&1 # Start NFS Daemons
>rclocal:2:wait:/etc/rc.local > /dev/console 2>&1 # Do local initializations
>. . .
>
In our inittab we start tcpip first, maybe that would help you.
>It appears that there is some invisible timeout period for an AFS file
>reference after which afsd will simply give up and report the file as
>non-existant.
>
>Is this a known problem? Has anyone else experienced/solved this?
>
>--
>|Rick Cochran 607-255-7223 [EMAIL PROTECTED]|
>|Cornell Materials Science Center [EMAIL PROTECTED]|
>|E20 Clark Hall, Ithaca, N.Y. 14853 cornell!msc.cornell.edu!rick|
>
>
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