Hmm.  I've just put an AFS client on one of our "general purpose" Unix
hosts.  This machine, which has a lot of local disk, is taken down to
single-user once a week so that a full dump can be done on the quiescent
file system.  afsd isn't too fond of this - it gets upset when /usr is
umounted.  The key here is that the "gp" client machine *isn't* rebooted - 
just brought down to single-user, dumped, and kicked to multi-user again.

This is the first machine I've put an AFS client on that does this - on
other machines, if I want to kill afsd I "shutdown -r" and don't run rc.afs
at the reboot.  I'm not really sure if that's an option for this machine or
not - the machine isn't under my direct control.  Transarc didn't have a better 
idea (afsd may or may not have been modified to be kill-able, but it's
certainly not yet to the point where it can be restarted, once stopped) -
does anyone out there do this and have a work-around?

If it makes any difference, this is a pmax_ul43 AFS 3.2b client.

Thanks.

Pat Wilson
Manager, Academic Unix Systems Group
Dartmouth College
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