Re: [OpenAFS] Questions about OpenAFS "reality"

2005-12-12 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 13. Dezember 2005 13:20 schrieb ext Leroy Tennison: > Is there a Linux GUI for day-to-day administration? AFAIK not. > What is the status of server-side byte-range locking? If this isn't a > near-term reality what alternatives do people use (SQL server is > obviously a possibility,

Re: [Bulk] Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Trouble setting up first server on FreeBSD 6.0

2005-12-12 Thread Leroy Tennison
Derrick J Brashear wrote: On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, Leroy Tennison wrote: zeroguy wrote: On Tue, 06 Dec 2005 17:29:06 -0600 (CST) Tony Shadwick - OSS Solutions <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (BTW, I would have searched the archives more thoroughly, but there doesn't appear to be any search functio

[OpenAFS] Questions about OpenAFS "reality"

2005-12-12 Thread Leroy Tennison
I am just learning OpenAFS and am very impressed with what I see so far. As a result I'm now interested in getting a broad overall picture of it and have several questions. A recent post stated that they had about 7000 users in a single cell, I'm wondering what a realistic maximum is (assume

Re: [OpenAFS] a familiar problem compiling aklog?

2005-12-12 Thread edwin
Does Kerberos have to be installed for openAFS to compile? Could you compile AFS and THEN compile Kerberos? Perhaps you could temporarily rename the offending Kerberos libraries so that they are not an option, just when you build those particular make targets that require com_err? Shouldn't

RE: [OpenAFS] Upgrade plan - any gotchas?

2005-12-12 Thread ted creedon
Don't forget that upserver and upclient re-populate the /usr/afs/etc directories automatically. tedc ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info

Re: [OpenAFS] a familiar problem compiling aklog?

2005-12-12 Thread Russ Allbery
Ken Hornstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If that were to happen, that would be fine with me. I was under the > impression that AFS's com_err was slightly special regarding thread > safety (witness the whole add_err_table()/add_to_error_table() mess that > aklog has to deal with). The krb5 com

Re: [OpenAFS] a familiar problem compiling aklog?

2005-12-12 Thread Ken Hornstein
>The right thing to do, I think, would be to add an option to AFS to build >with the system com_err library rather than its own. That way it can >either reuse the Kerberos com_err library or both it and Kerberos can use >some other system library (like the one from e2fsprogs that most Linux >distr

Re: [OpenAFS] a familiar problem compiling aklog?

2005-12-12 Thread Russ Allbery
Ken Hornstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I know about the problem; I don't know what to do about it. > The basic problem is that OpenAFS & Kerberos 5 both provide com_err > libraries and include files. Most of the time this doesn't matter. It > _does_ matter when you have a program that want

Re: [OpenAFS] minor bug: -afsdb does not understand CNAME

2005-12-12 Thread Russ Allbery
Adam Megacz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I take it that afsd doesn't use the usual gethostbyname() to resolve the > hostname it gets after pulling an AFSDB record... It does indeed use gethostbyname(): if ((afsdb_type == 1) && (server_num < MAXHOSTSPERCELL) && /* Do

Re: [OpenAFS] Upgrade plan - any gotchas?

2005-12-12 Thread Christopher D. Clausen
Steve Gaarder wrote: Here's my plan for upgrading both OS and OpenAFS on my primary AFS server. Please let me know if you see any potential problems, gotchas, etc. What do you mean by "Primary"? Do you only have one AFS DB server for your cell? Most cells run at least 3 AFS DB servers (just

[OpenAFS] Upgrade plan - any gotchas?

2005-12-12 Thread Steve Gaarder
Here's my plan for upgrading both OS and OpenAFS on my primary AFS server. Please let me know if you see any potential problems, gotchas, etc. These items I have already done: 1. Set up a second VLDB and file server. Change all the CellServDB files to include both servers. (Authentication is

Re: [OpenAFS] Compile failure on FreeBSD 6.0

2005-12-12 Thread Tony Shadwick - OSS Solutions
I just did a config. No biggie, I'll try building a kernel later today to see if that resolves the issue outright. On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, Jim Rees wrote: In file included from ../sys/vnode.h:547, from /usr/local/src/openafs-1.4.0/src/afs/sysincludes.h:257,

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: why did I have to "vos create" twice on new cell setup? root.afs vs root.cell?

2005-12-12 Thread Derek Atkins
Quoting Derrick J Brashear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, Derek Atkins wrote: That was the other 50%. So "root.afs" is the default for "-rootvol", while the string "root.cell" is actually has special meaning for AFS. Well, yes and no. root.afs is "special" to dynroot clients, bu

Re: [OpenAFS] Compile failure on FreeBSD 6.0

2005-12-12 Thread Jim Rees
In file included from ../sys/vnode.h:547, from /usr/local/src/openafs-1.4.0/src/afs/sysincludes.h:257, from /usr/local/src/openafs-1.4.0/src/afs/afs_analyze.c:20: ./vnode_if.h:9:30: vnode_if_typedef.h: No such file or directory ./vnode_if.h:10:31: vnode

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: why did I have to "vos create" twice on new cell setup? root.afs vs root.cell?

2005-12-12 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, Derek Atkins wrote: That was the other 50%. So "root.afs" is the default for "-rootvol", while the string "root.cell" is actually has special meaning for AFS. Well, yes and no. root.afs is "special" to dynroot clients, but root.cell, you mean. not normal clients. Fo

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: why did I have to "vos create" twice on new cell setup? root.afs vs root.cell?

2005-12-12 Thread Derek Atkins
Adam Megacz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I guess this means that you can stick actual files in the top-level > /afs/ (though they're only visible in your own cell, right)? I guess > that would be a bad idea, though. Sort of kills the whole "shared > global namespace" thing. Yes, you could put

Re: [OpenAFS] a familiar problem compiling aklog?

2005-12-12 Thread Ken Hornstein
>In file included from /usr/local/include/krb5.h:2550, > from aklog_main.c:62: >/sources/openafs-1.4.0/include/afs/com_err.h:15: error: parse error before >"afs_int32" I know about the problem; I don't know what to do about it. The basic problem is that OpenAFS & Kerberos 5 both

[OpenAFS] problem installing openafs in Suselinux

2005-12-12 Thread Moises Sanchez
Hi,     I have installed  OpenAFS on SuseLinux.   afs-server and afs-client krn   When I tried to enter this command:   fs setacl   an error message comes up:   i do not remember the exat words:   but something like :   function  not funtional.   Then I tried to use kas command: but I couldn´t  lo

Re: [OpenAFS] minor bug: -afsdb does not understand CNAME

2005-12-12 Thread Frank Burkhardt
Hi, On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 10:50:34PM -0800, Adam Megacz wrote: > > Apparently if the host listed in an AFSDB entry is a CNAME record, > afsd will not chase the reference. > > I take it that afsd doesn't use the usual gethostbyname() to resolve > the hostname it gets after pulling an AFSDB reco