Hi folks,

yesterday I've installed 1.4.6 from the precompiled rs_aix53.tar.gz
tarball on an AIX 5.3 machine (client only first for testing). However
during the next reboot, the start of AFS via /etc/rc.afs from within
/etc/inittab failed.

afsd complained about not being able to read files from the
configuration directory /usr/local/etc/openafs. That's true, because the
machine has its AFS stuff in the Transarc style paths (i.e. config files
in /usr/vice/etc) and the /usr/local/etc/openafs directory does not
exist at all.

I could get it going by adding "-confdir /usr/vice/etc" to the options
for afsd in /etc/rc.afs, but still e.g. klog fails with

"klog: error reading cell database Can't get local cell name!".

I wonder whether it is intentional that the precompiled binaries
obviously use different directories than the previous releases. Looking
at the "strings" output for some of the 1.4.6 binaries for AIX, it seems
that the new release has been built in default mode instead of Transarc
mode. If this switch has been made by intention, then it should be noted
somewhere IMHO. If this has happened by mistake, could then someone
please provide an updated tarball?

On a side note: It seems that the new stuff has been built with umask
077, thus permissions need to be adjusted after installation for
world-readable/executable files (klog, tokens, etc.). It would be
helpful if it could be built with umask 022 again (as before). Thanks.

Regards,
Markus

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Markus Alt
IBM Lab Boeblingen, Germany
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