Thank you very much for clearing this up. I had noticed the difference in the options on this machine compared to others, it was indeed missing -dynroot. I'll check into root.afs as well.
Thanks again, Chris Simon Wilkinson wrote: > > On 13 Jan 2010, at 15:02, Eric Chris Garrison wrote: > >> When I start the openafs client on one RHEL 4 server, it seems to ignore >> what's in the CellServDB file, doesn't mount the standard list of sites >> and our local one too. It shows under /afs our local cell, a cell that >> hasn't existed in a couple of years, and a test cell that's not running. > > There are two configurations that afsd can run in. The first is that it > dynamically generates the contents of /afs (either from the DNS, or from > your CelLServDB file). The second is that it looks for a volume called > root.afs in the local cell (the one specified by 'ThisCell'). This > behaviour is controlled by the > -dynroot flag. Because using root.afs requires that the network is > present when AFS starts, it has fallen out of favour in recent years. > > It sounds like your machine with the spooky mounts doesn't have -dynroot > in its afsd options, and so is mounting root.afs, which has (by the > sounds of it) bitrotted over the years. > > Cheers, > > Simon. > -- Eric Chris Garrison | Principal Mass Storage Specialist [email protected] | Indiana University - Research Storage W: 317-278-1207 M: 317-250-8649 | Jabber IM: [email protected] _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
