I'm seeing two odd-ball problems on suns with AFS and was wondering if
anyone else has seen these.

The first scenario is this:  Both machines are running SunOS 4.1.3,
and using transarc's login and in.rlogind;  User bob has "grand" in
his .rhosts; he is already on grand and tries to rlogin to teton;
If the partition that bob's homedir is already mounted
before he tries to rlogin, everything goes fine, he's not prompted for
a passwd, and the rlogin proceeds fine.  If his homedir is not mounted
when he tries to rlogin, the automounter mounts the filesystem with
his homedir, but login can't seem to open his .rhosts and so bob
is prompted for his passwd.  After bob gets on, he can't cat his
.rhosts (perms 600), but he can cat any of his other files with the
same permissions.  Bob can cat the .rhosts as soon as he writes
anything to his homedir.  It almost seems like some race condition where
transarc's login tries to open the .rhosts, and gets a failure before
the automounter gets a chance to mount up the filesystem.  We have not
seen this on machines where the homedirectories are local, or on machines
with automounted homedirs but using sun's login and rlogind.  Last note,
I first thought this was a Sun Stupid Automount trick, but this happens
with amd too.

The second one is using Sun's Calendar Manager (cm)?  What we're
seeing is that the dates are off by seven hours.  It appears to be the
difference between Mountain time and Greeenwich mean time.  This machine
is a sun IPC running 4.1.3, and gets its entire /usr and /usr/openwin
partition from AFS.  I've checked /usr/lib/zoneinfo, and the only difference
between the AFS /usr/.../zoneinfo and a UFS zoneinfo is that localtime
is a hard-link to US/Mountain on a Unix filesystem and US/Mountain is
an identical copy of localtime under AFS (since hard-links can't span
directories)

Well, sorry for the long-windedness, and thanks for any help you can
provide.

-Tom
------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Thomas J. Orban                       U S WEST Advanced Technologies -
- [EMAIL PROTECTED]              4001 Discovery Drive           - 
- (303) 541-6620                        Boulder, CO 80303              -
------------------------------------------------------------------------

Reply via email to