If your cronjob can run as root on any AFS server (strictly speaking, on any AFS node with /usr/afs/etc/KeyFile, but it's generally not a good idea to put the KeyFile on a client), you can use the "-localauth" argument to "vos release"
vos release <volname> -localauth When run as root with an accessible KeyFile, "vos release ... -localauth" will succeed. I believe the -localauth causes tokens to be fabricated using the current key in the key file. Kim > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marco Spatz > Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 2:55 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [OpenAFS] releasing volumes automatically > > > Hi, > > I've set up an OpenAFS und a 4 machines cluster, and have > made replicas > of the user's home volumes. I know, that generally, this is a > bad idea, > but I want to use this as backup the user can access without my help > (I've mounted the readonly volumes to another mountpoint). > And now I want the AFS system to release this volumes at night, but I > don't know how to this. Thought about writing a cronjob, but I don't > know how do gain access as admin to get the rights to execute > 'vos release'. > Is there any possibility to tell OpenAFS to release certain (or all) > changed volumes at a certain time? Would be a great help. > > Thanks for your help, > > Marco > _______________________________________________ > OpenAFS-info mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info > _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
