Re: [OpenAFS] "Upgrading" an OpenAFS server from opensuse leap 42.3 to opensuse leap 15.1

2019-12-12 Thread Christof Hanke
Hi, On Friday, 22 November 2019 19:53:13 CET Kenneth Aaker wrote: > I just got my OpenAFS server working again after upgrading the system > from OpenSuSE Leap 42.3 to Leap 15.1. I ran into one puzzling problem > doing that upgrade. The system upgrade finished after whining about a > couple

Re: [OpenAFS] make fails on linux 4.3.0-1

2015-11-17 Thread Christof Hanke
On Saturday 14 Nov 2015 21:11:05 Stephan Wiesand wrote: > On Nov 13, 2015, at 18:07 , Benjamin Kaduk wrote: > > On Fri, 13 Nov 2015, Ted Creedon wrote: > >> or opensuse tumbleweed > >> > >> make[3]: Entering directory '/data/openafs-1.6.15/src/gtx' > > To make it clear, this is not at all about

Re: [OpenAFS] Metrics on the cell

2015-03-16 Thread Christof Hanke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 16 Mar 2015 12:11:53 + Devine, Steve s...@msu.edu wrote: I have been asked by senior leadership to gather data on the usage of our cell. I can of course tell them how much disc space is in use and parse logs from our filedrawers and

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: additional OpenAFS 1.6.9 binaries available

2014-06-27 Thread Christof Hanke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 26 Jun 2014 15:29:14 + Brandon Allbery ballb...@sinenomine.net wrote: On Thu, 2014-06-26 at 08:19 -0700, Andrew Deason wrote: OS X has a few things like fink, macports, and brew, but that would be an extra big thing you'd have to

Re: [OpenAFS] Pre-built packages: build options?

2014-04-09 Thread Christof Hanke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 09 Apr 2014 10:47:39 -0400 Jeff Blaine jbla...@kickflop.net wrote: First, thank you very much for those who donate time and/or resources to provide builds of OpenAFS. How does one determine how these packages were built? What configure

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Naming of backup and up commands

2013-09-23 Thread Christof Hanke
[added release-team] On Sun, 22 Sep 2013 23:42:55 -0500 Andrew Deason adea...@sinenomine.net wrote: On Sun, 22 Sep 2013 17:51:40 -0700 Russ Allbery r...@stanford.edu wrote: What would people think if I submitted a patch to OpenAFS to rename up to afs-up and backup to afs-backup? Would

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Naming of backup and up commands

2013-09-23 Thread Christof Hanke
On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 09:19:07 +0200 Christof Hanke christof.ha...@rzg.mpg.de wrote: [added release-team] On Sun, 22 Sep 2013 23:42:55 -0500 Andrew Deason adea...@sinenomine.net wrote: On Sun, 22 Sep 2013 17:51:40 -0700 Russ Allbery r...@stanford.edu wrote: What would people think

Re: [OpenAFS] building swig based interfaces

2013-09-03 Thread Christof Hanke
to be easily applied and understood as it follows the same logic as the CLI that admins use with a shell. kuba -- On Sep 3, 2013, at 2:13 PM, chas williams - CONTRACTOR c...@cmf.nrl.navy.mil wrote: On Mon, 2 Sep 2013 14:23:47 +0200 Christof Hanke christof.ha...@rzg.mpg.de

Re: [OpenAFS] building swig based interfaces

2013-09-02 Thread Christof Hanke
Hi Gémes, On Sun, 01 Sep 2013 18:49:03 +0200 Gémes Géza g...@kzsdabas.hu wrote: Sorry if I wasn't clear with my intentions. I plan to have a python interface, where all the parts (volumes, pts entries, cache, etc) would be represented as objects. So basically I plan to have a few classes

Re: [OpenAFS] building swig based interfaces

2013-09-02 Thread Christof Hanke
On Mon, 02 Sep 2013 14:51:40 +0200 Gémes Géza g...@kzsdabas.hu wrote: 2013-09-02 14:23 keltezéssel, Christof Hanke írta: Hi Gémes, On Sun, 01 Sep 2013 18:49:03 +0200 Gémes Géza g...@kzsdabas.hu wrote: Sorry if I wasn't clear with my intentions. I plan to have a python interface

Re: [OpenAFS] Find windows openafs version

2013-08-22 Thread Christof Hanke
Hi, Am 22.08.2013, 16:33 Uhr, schrieb Gémes Géza g...@kzsdabas.hu: Sorry for this slightly off topic question, but what is the recommended way to find out the version of the openafs installation. I ask this because I wrote different installation scripts (which take into account if the

Re: [OpenAFS] Making the R/O preference when crossing mount points configurable

2013-05-10 Thread Christof Hanke
Hi Arne, to be honest, I'm unsure what to think of it. I could be worthwhile in some circumstances and create more confusion in others. But why not? As for your general problem, we've set up a special machine called afsrw, where we mounted a special root.cell.rw volume, which has no RO-copies.

Re: [OpenAFS] Running OpenAFS on top of GPFS?

2012-11-30 Thread Christof Hanke
Dear Craig, we are running some OSD-Servers on GPFS. The OSD-servers are in the production-run sense comparable to fileservers and since GPFS is POSIX-compatible (dont know to how many %), everything is fine. However, we run those servers as single-server GPFS. They are server and client

Re: [OpenAFS] [workaround] NFS export oddness

2012-11-02 Thread Christof Hanke
Instead of this unionfs-workaround, you could also use a user-space nfs-server, like unfs http://unfs3.sourceforge.net/ but of course, you'll loose the kerberos-security as well. Christof Am Thu, 1 Nov 2012 17:31:31 -0700 schrieb Timothy Balcer timo...@telmate.com: I found a workaround for

Re: [OpenAFS] Problems in openafs paradise.

2012-10-30 Thread Christof Hanke
1:22 AM, Christof Hanke christof.ha...@rzg.mpg.de wrote: Am Wed, 17 Oct 2012 20:12:12 -0400 schrieb John Tobin jto...@po-box.esu.edu: Dear Openafs. I am a relative new user of openafs. I am trying to set up openafs-1.6.1 under a suse 12.1. I initially tried to use an old

Re: [OpenAFS] Problems in openafs paradise.

2012-10-30 Thread Christof Hanke
, that about wraps that up. I am not authorized... What am I doing wrong? tob On 10/18/12 1:22 AM, Christof Hanke christof.ha...@rzg.mpg.de wrote: Am Wed, 17 Oct 2012 20:12:12 -0400 schrieb John Tobin jto...@po-box.esu.edu: Dear Openafs. I am a relative new user of openafs. I

Re: [OpenAFS] Problems in openafs paradise.

2012-10-30 Thread Christof Hanke
ok, that was not _that_ private after all. Too early in the morning and was meant for not-spamming the mailing-list only. Am Wed, 31 Oct 2012 05:05:32 +0100 schrieb Christof Hanke christof.ha...@rzg.mpg.de: Hi Tobi, this is Christof now privately. If you don't mind, I could use you

Re: [OpenAFS] Problems in openafs paradise.

2012-10-17 Thread Christof Hanke
Am Wed, 17 Oct 2012 20:12:12 -0400 schrieb John Tobin jto...@po-box.esu.edu: Dear Openafs. I am a relative new user of openafs. I am trying to set up openafs-1.6.1 under a suse 12.1. I initially tried to use an old suse readme file to install, that failed miserably. So I went to the

Re: [OpenAFS] Kernel NULL pointer dereference

2012-04-20 Thread Christof Hanke
that it is always born in pain. -- G'Quan Let's update the servers! - Christof Hanke e-mail ha...@rzg.mpg.de RZG (Rechenzentrum Garching)phone +49-89-3299-1041 Computing Center of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

Re: [OpenAFS] Monitoring AFSClient

2012-03-07 Thread Christof Hanke
Hi, Am Donnerstag, 8. März 2012, 07:51:06 schrieb Michael Richter: Hi List, I want to monitor the AFSClients on some servers using Icinga. Is there a command to check if the service is working? I tried fs listcells which tells a error if the service is not running. Or is there a more

[OpenAFS] Windows client interaction with Sophos Antivir

2012-01-19 Thread Christof Hanke
Hi, we are seeing on Windows7 (32bit) large delays when accessing a .docx file 30MB with on-access scan turned on. Client is 1.7.4. The fileserver is pure openafs, git-based (1.6.0b-164-g03273), but we also see it on our custom OSD-fileservers. I have attached a wireshark and a fstrace

Re: [OpenAFS] Windows client interaction with Sophos Antivir

2012-01-19 Thread Christof Hanke
is torn down and msword is finally able to issue the request with its own credentials. But of course this is just a totally random guess. Jeffrey Altman On 1/20/2012 12:37 AM, Christof Hanke wrote: Hi, we are seeing on Windows7 (32bit) large delays when accessing a .docx file 30MB

Re: [OpenAFS] Windows client interaction with Sophos Antivir

2012-01-19 Thread Christof Hanke
Am 20.01.2012 07:32, schrieb Jeffrey Altman: On 1/20/2012 1:18 AM, Christof Hanke wrote: ok. What do you think is the best way to proceed? Me trying to attach a kernel-debugger (nerver done that). or you trying to test Sophos ? Unless you are a windows kernel expert attempting the kernel

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: [OpenAFS-announce] OpenAFS 1.7.2 released for Microsoft Windows

2011-11-21 Thread Christof Hanke
Am Montag, 21. November 2011, 10:45:50 schrieb Lars Schimmer: On 2011-11-20 23:20, Jeffrey Altman wrote: OpenAFS 1.7.2 is the second in a new series of OpenAFS clients for the Microsoft Windows platform that is implemented as a native file system. In brief, the benefits of the 1.7.2

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS for Windows IFS Status

2011-09-16 Thread Christof Hanke
of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain. -- G'Quan Let's update the servers! - Christof Hanke e-mail ha...@rzg.mpg.de RZG (Rechenzentrum Garching)phone +49

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: openafs on suse 10.2 with kernel 2.6.18.2-34-default

2011-02-02 Thread Christof Hanke
Am 02.02.2011 17:16, schrieb Andrew Deason: On Wed, 2 Feb 2011 13:21:24 + rosatrancoso rosatranc...@gmail.com wrote: So, what can I do? Compile openafs-kernel-source? Are there any other rpm's? Just compile openafs-kernel-source, and you should get an OpenAFS kernel module that

Re: [OpenAFS] Serving AFS to Windows boxes w/o OpenAFS client (Samba)?

2010-12-15 Thread Christof Hanke
There is some stuff about this in the Wiki : http://wiki.openafs.org/AFSLore/SMBtoAFS/ but a lot of stuff is outdated (dead links etc.) The apparently preferred method is with kimpersonate, which I don't like that much. I hope it is possible to create a ticket file using pam and then use aklog

Re: [OpenAFS] New OpenAFS website proposal.

2010-11-26 Thread Christof Hanke
! - Christof Hanke e-mail ha...@rzg.mpg.de RZG (Rechenzentrum Garching)phone +49-89-3299-1041 Computing Center of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (MPG) and the Institut für Plasmaphysik (IPP) ___ OpenAFS

Re: [OpenAFS] New OpenAFS website proposal.

2010-11-26 Thread Christof Hanke
Hi Jakub, Am 26.11.2010 10:41, schrieb Jakub Witkowski: While I am willing to spend time to build a replacement website, I would rather make something that has a chance of being accepted. Right now, I have a distinct impression that, right now, both my choices of technology and modes of

Re: [OpenAFS-devel] Re: [OpenAFS] Re: 1.6 and post-1.6 OpenAFS branch management and schedule

2010-10-03 Thread Christof Hanke
Am Donnerstag, 17. Juni 2010 22:54:25 schrieb Andrew Deason: On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 22:01:08 +0200 Christof Hanke christof.ha...@rzg.mpg.de wrote: Am Donnerstag, 17. Juni 2010 21:30:23 schrieb Andrew Deason: And in particular, NTFS and other journalled filesystems have the advantage

Re: [OpenAFS] Problems with OpenAFS after upgrade from OpenSuSE 11.0 to 11.3

2010-07-27 Thread Christof Hanke
Hi Claudio, Am Dienstag, 27. Juli 2010, 12:22:56 schrieb Claudio Prono: Hello all, I have some problems after the upgrade. When i'll do a kinit ; aklog, this is the error: afs-test:~ # kinit admin Password for ad...@mediaservice-test.pri: afs-test:~ # aklog -d Authenticating to cell

Re: [OpenAFS-devel] Re: [OpenAFS] Re: 1.6 and post-1.6 OpenAFS branch management and schedule

2010-06-17 Thread Christof Hanke
Am Donnerstag, 17. Juni 2010 21:30:23 schrieb Andrew Deason: On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:59:29 -0700 Russ Allbery r...@stanford.edu wrote: Christopher D. Clausen cclau...@acm.org writes: I mean I occationally see NTFS errors in the event log on Windows servers. Windows doesn't take the disk

Re: [OpenAFS-devel] Re: [OpenAFS] Re: 1.6 and post-1.6 OpenAFS branch management and schedule

2010-06-17 Thread Christof Hanke
Am Donnerstag, 17. Juni 2010 22:54:25 schrieb Andrew Deason: On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 22:01:08 +0200 Christof Hanke christof.ha...@rzg.mpg.de wrote: Am Donnerstag, 17. Juni 2010 21:30:23 schrieb Andrew Deason: And in particular, NTFS and other journalled filesystems have the advantage

Re: [OpenAFS] SRPMs for the RPMs

2010-04-19 Thread Christof Hanke
Am Montag, 19. April 2010 17:10:42 schrieb Harald Barth: the ideal situation is we'd just use the one srpm already available from openafs.org for the release. Agreed, but there is some more work to do for this. This would be preferable, but for example my RPM packaging skills are not that

Re: [OpenAFS] Expanding/shrinking vice partitions

2010-03-31 Thread Christof Hanke
Hi, Am Mittwoch, 31. März 2010 10:26:31 schrieb Anders Magnusson: Hi, I'm wondering if it may have any negative side effects if I change the size of a vice partition while the file server is running? For example when adding a new disk and then just expand a vice partition via lvm. We are

Re: [OpenAFS] Client synchronization issues/Client caches are not being updated

2010-03-02 Thread Christof Hanke
Am Dienstag, 2. März 2010 11:01:22 schrieb Ken Elkabany: I have six client machines all accessing a single openafs server. The server and five clients are running Ubuntu 9.10 with openafs 1.4.10. About 80% of the time when a client modifies files on the afs, the changes are not reflected on

Re: [OpenAFS] Force client to cache directory

2010-01-04 Thread Christof Hanke
Am Montag, 4. Januar 2010 16:56:44 schrieb Gilles Martin: Hello, I was wondering if it's possible to force caching a specific directory on a client. For example by running a cron job regularly. The aim of this is that the client in case of server problem has an up to date version of the

Re: [OpenAFS] Migrating fully a server to a new machine, best practice

2009-04-15 Thread Christof Hanke
Hi Mircea, Am Dienstag, 14. April 2009 16:09:00 schrieb Mircea Ciocan: Derrick Brashear wrote: you don't need to reconfigure clients fileserver-wise; if you're moving database server functionality, you do need to deal with that on the clients Following your mail-thread, I wonder if you

Re: [OpenAFS] Problem on OpenAFS server

2009-02-25 Thread Christof Hanke
On Wednesday 25 February 2009 17:22:54 Wheeler, JF (Jonathan) wrote: My cell currently has 3 servers. On one server (afs1), I find that the fileserver and volserver are continuously being restarted. The contents of /usr/afs/log/FileLog.old are: Wed Feb 25 14:46:34 2009 File server starting

Re: [OpenAFS] AFS to NFS translator in Linux

2009-02-11 Thread Christof Hanke
Am Donnerstag, 12. Februar 2009 01:06:06 schrieben Sie: Christof Hanke wrote: On Tuesday 10 February 2009 21:08:49 Troy Telford wrote: Where can I find some information on how to use the AFS-NFS translator on Linux? (Does it even exist?) Basically, I'm looking for read-only access

Re: [OpenAFS] AFS to NFS translator in Linux

2009-02-10 Thread Christof Hanke
On Tuesday 10 February 2009 21:08:49 Troy Telford wrote: Where can I find some information on how to use the AFS-NFS translator on Linux? (Does it even exist?) Basically, I'm looking for read-only access, in situations where it's either inconvenient or impossible to compile the AFS kernel

Re: [OpenAFS] encrypted volumes

2009-02-06 Thread Christof Hanke
Am Freitag, 6. Februar 2009 02:09:09 schrieb David Bear: Has there ever been much discussion on created encrypted volumes? These would work like a local encrypted file system - without they key, they are useless. I'm thinking that you might need an fs setkey or something like that to

Re: [OpenAFS] encrypted volumes

2009-02-06 Thread Christof Hanke
Am Samstag, 7. Februar 2009 00:25:16 schrieb Mattias Pantzare: On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 22:21, Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinri...@online.de wrote: Am Freitag, 6. Februar 2009 21:45:02 schrieb Christof Hanke: Sorry, but I think you see this from the wrong angle. The point I think here

RE: Linux tmpfs (Was: [OpenAFS] Solaris 10u6: ZFS cache?)

2008-12-06 Thread Christof Hanke
Yes, thanks. That's what I meant. Christof From: Jeffrey Altman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 11:43 PM To: Christof Hanke Cc: openafs-info@openafs.org Subject: Re: Linux tmpfs (Was: [OpenAFS] Solaris 10u6: ZFS cache?) Christof Hanke

Re: [OpenAFS] newbie questions

2008-11-12 Thread Christof Hanke
On Wednesday 12 November 2008 13:42:29 Papp Tamás wrote: Jason Edgecombe wrote: Try this: 1. install new drive 2. partition mkfs on new drive 3. mount new partition as /vicepb 4. bos restart -server my.server.name -all 5. vos partinfo -server my.server.name # should show vicepb now

Re: [OpenAFS] questions about volume size?

2008-10-07 Thread Christof Hanke
Hi, you could try to release the volume to delete the files really from the fileserver. Cheers, Christof On Tuesday 07 October 2008 11:47:35 TIARA System Man wrote: dear guys, one of our users has 1.7TB data. i asked him to reduce his data. he already removed many files. currently, his

RE: [OpenAFS] when openafs becomes a windows IFS

2008-09-15 Thread Christof Hanke
; Christof Hanke; Christof Hanke; Christopher D. Clausen Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] when openafs becomes a windows IFS David: I believe I was quite clear that Explorer ignores the information. Explorer on XP and Vista simply do not attempt to obtain information regarding the reparse point data when the file

Re: [OpenAFS] when openafs becomes a windows IFS

2008-09-04 Thread Christof Hanke
On Tuesday 22 July 2008 23:57:56 Jeffrey Altman wrote: Christopher D. Clausen wrote: Would using mount points instead of symlinks to directories help with this problem? Windows doesn't know about mount points. A mount point is a Directory to Windows. Same behavior when removing a

Re: [OpenAFS] when openafs becomes a windows IFS

2008-09-04 Thread Christof Hanke
On Thursday 04 September 2008 15:06:05 Jeffrey Altman wrote: Christof Hanke wrote: On Tuesday 22 July 2008 23:57:56 Jeffrey Altman wrote: Christopher D. Clausen wrote: Would using mount points instead of symlinks to directories help with this problem? Windows doesn't know about mount

Re: [OpenAFS] Problem with mandatory profiles on AFS.

2008-08-19 Thread Christof Hanke
On Tuesday 19 August 2008 11:52:02 Anders Magnusson wrote: Hi, first environment: AFS servers running 1.4.5, Windows clients 1.5.36. The problem is that when exporting mandatory profiles it usually works fine, but on some profiles it just hangs. Looking at the task manager shows that both

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenSuse 10.2 performace issue

2008-06-24 Thread Christof Hanke
Are you running by any chance a 1.5.x openafs client ? I've seen something like this on 64Bit SLES9, where a webserver was using the 1.5.x client and after a while file i/o even outside AFS was getting really slow. The workaround was to switch to 1.4.x T/Christof On Wednesday 04 June 2008

Re: [OpenAFS] effects of NAT

2008-03-26 Thread Christof Hanke
On Wed, March 26, 2008 7:15 pm, David Bear wrote: I know there have been some outspoken voices on issues related to NAT. I think my rather simple question might have a complex answer... but the game is afoot. Our university is now talking about putting EVERYONE (end user computings) in a

Re: [OpenAFS] AFS namei file servers, SAN, any issues elsewhere? We've had some. Can AFS _cause_ SAN issues?

2008-03-17 Thread Christof Hanke
Kim Kimball wrote: SAN symptoms, for those interested I'm seeing SCSI command timeouts and UFS log timeouts (on vice partitions using the SAN for storage) on LUNS used for vicep's on the Hitachi USP, and was seeing them also on the 9585 until a recent configuration change. At first I

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: issue with Fedora 8 and retaining tokens after graphical login

2007-11-26 Thread Christof Hanke
Derrick Brashear wrote: But let's make everybody happy: How about an rpmbuild time switch to allow anyone to rebuild with their favourite path style. I would still want to see FHS being the default, but transarc style is just a one-line change in the rpmbuild specfile. Likewise, the people

[OpenAFS] Re: [OpenAFS-announce] OpenAFS 1.4.5 release available

2007-10-27 Thread Christof Hanke
guess future versions of openafs can be found there as well. T/Christof Hanke PS: A note to packagers of other distributions: It is indeed possible to use this buildservice to package fedora, ubuntu, debian, mandriva and some other distributions. Thus, if your short on hardware you might give

[OpenAFS] Re: [OpenAFS-announce] OpenAFS 1.4.5 release candidate 4 available

2007-10-23 Thread Christof Hanke
Derrick J Brashear wrote: The OpenAFS Gatekeepers announce the availability of the fourth release candidate for OpenAFS version 1.4.5. Source files and available binaries can be accessed via the web at: http://www.openafs.org/release/openafs-1.4.5pre4.html or via AFS at: UNIX:

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS and OpenSUSE build service.

2007-09-26 Thread Christof Hanke
Ken Aaker wrote: I was looking around OpenSUSE.org and looked at some of their Build Service information. Me too, last week in fact. They have a couple of versions of OpenAFS modules available, 1.4..2 and 1.4.4, as well as libpag-openafs-session. I didn't see any familiar names on the

Re: [OpenAFS] elegant solution for user change?

2007-08-03 Thread Christof Hanke
Jochen Thäder wrote: my kinit doesn't know --afs-cell ( version: kinit (Heimdal 0.7.2) ) ... My problem is that I can't access the keytab after being in the pagsh ( the operator and worker could access ) because it's in afs. Moreover your solution changes ticket in all other worker shells,

Re: [OpenAFS] elegant solution for user change?

2007-08-03 Thread Christof Hanke
Jochen Thäder wrote: export KRB5CCNAME=/tmp/blah kinit -t=operatorkeytab principal but unfortunatelly the user now lost his access rights in his other shells :-( which he should keep Yes, I just confirmed that with 0.7.1. The token gets changed by kinit -t ..., which is surprising since

Re: [OpenAFS] renaming a volume caused headache

2007-08-02 Thread Christof Hanke
Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 2 Aug, Russ Allbery wrote: Helmut Jarausch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: one of my collegues has married and therefore changed his name. I had a volume called - say Miller - and a directory ABC on that volume. I have renamed the volume 'Miller' to 'Smith', but now I

Re: [OpenAFS] Run openafs on x86_64 machines with 64bit Linux ?

2007-08-02 Thread Christof Hanke
Sorin Bota wrote: Run openafs on 64bit linux on x86_64 machines? I tried to install the OpenAFS 1.4.4 (openafs-1.4.4-src.tar http://lists.openafs.org/dl/openafs/1.4.4/openafs-1.4.4-src.tar) on an openSUSE 10.2 64bit Linux system running on an Dell with 2 AMD 2218 Opterons. The 32 bit

Re: [OpenAFS] elegant solution for user change?

2007-08-02 Thread Christof Hanke
Jochen Thäder wrote: afs-user worker should change to afs-user operator (using a keyfile) into a clean shell without typing a passwd. The keyfile is only accessible for worker. When I exit from there, I have the same situation for worker as before ( as I want ) Give this a try : sh#

Re: [OpenAFS] Cell migration

2007-07-01 Thread Christof Hanke
Hi, what about vos move ? I haven't heard of any reason why this shouldn't work. HTH, Christof Gérald Macinenti wrote: Hi, I have to migrate volumes between a 1.2.11 OpenAFS server to a new 1.4.4 server, the two servers serves the same Cell but don't know each other, then what would be

Re: [OpenAFS] AFS token, SSH, KRB[5]

2007-06-07 Thread Christof Hanke
Russ Allbery wrote: Rainer Laatsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Interested parties might want to have a look at /afs/rrz.uni-koeln.de/vol/pam/pam_runexec.tar The pam_runexec is configurable to get a token by executing [KRB4] klog+afslog or [KRB5] kinit+gssklog under pam. Config's are

Re: [OpenAFS] What is the best Linux to run openafs on?

2007-05-29 Thread Christof Hanke
Derrick J Brashear wrote: On Wed, 23 May 2007, Mark B Henry wrote: Hello, I am running into problems compiling on SLES 10 with openafs 1.4.4. It stops me with the following error: checking whether to build osi_vfs.h... checking for linux kernel module build works... no configure:

Re: [OpenAFS] Volume Creation Date Nonsense

2007-05-14 Thread Christof Hanke
John Hascall wrote: So, excluding time travel, what might cause this: # vos create afs-5.iastate.edu /vicepc blah.de.blah # vos exam blah.de.blah blah.de.blah 538247009 RW 2 K On-line afs-5.iastate.edu /vicepc RWrite 538247009 ROnly 0

Re: [OpenAFS] Hijacking a PAG

2007-03-20 Thread Christof Hanke
Hi, just one (or three) question(s) out of curiosity : Why don't you operate on the krb5-ticket-level? Wouldn't that be easier (and more portable to other systems) ? Any specific reason for that ? Christof Andreas Haupt wrote: Hi Derek, hi Chas, On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, chas williams -

Re: [OpenAFS] kernel: afs_NewVCache: warning none freed, using 4000 of 4000

2007-03-08 Thread Christof Hanke
Jim Rees wrote: Ken Aaker wrote: There is an lsof command available, Are there some options for lsof that would be useful? I don't use it myself, but lsof |wc should give you a few hundred files, at least on a personal workstation. If it's over 4000 you may have to play with the options

Re: [OpenAFS] Does openafs support Linux LVM ?

2007-03-08 Thread Christof Hanke
Hengtong Ding wrote: Hi all, I am new to afs and tried to install an afs server on my Linux machine and Logical Volume Manager is used in my machine. When I try to start fs server, it complains, I don't how to go further, and my kaserver,buserver ,ptserver and vlserver runs ok. What's

Re: [OpenAFS] 1.5.15 unknown symbol in module

2007-02-26 Thread Christof Hanke
ted creedon wrote: Thanks. Looks like NFS requires it? tedc Well, I don't quite get youre question, I'm afraid. AFS at least requires it. ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info

Re: [OpenAFS] 1.5.15 unknown symbol in module

2007-02-23 Thread Christof Hanke
You need to modprobe sunrpc before loading the module. Christof ted creedon schrieb: On SuSE 10.2 (kernel 2.61.8.2) 1.5.15 compiles and installs but when an insmod libafs.ko is done there is an error message “unknown symbol in module”. How do I troubleshoot this? Thanks.

Re: [OpenAFS] kde dcop server

2007-02-21 Thread Christof Hanke
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, I'm working with OpenSuSe 10.1 systems which authenticate against active directory. User homedirs are located on AFS completely. Recently I've started using the program krenew to renew my krb5 ticket and afs token in order to be able to leave the computer

Re: [OpenAFS] Possible complete brain failure

2007-02-08 Thread Christof Hanke
One possible reason: The ACLs don't allow to traverse all directories... ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info

Re: [OpenAFS] fs setacl and permissions

2007-01-25 Thread Christof Hanke
Juha Jäykkä wrote: Hi! as a member of system:adminstrators, do mkdir /afs/cell/dir mkdir /afs/cell/dir/dir2 fs setacl /afs/cell/dir user all as user, do fs setacl /afs/cell/dir/dir2 anyone anything to get fs: You don't have the required access rights on ... This is the expected

Re: [OpenAFS] fs setacl and permissions

2007-01-25 Thread Christof Hanke
Juha Jäykkä schrieb: as a member of system:adminstrators, do mkdir /afs/cell/dir mkdir /afs/cell/dir/dir2 fs setacl /afs/cell/dir user all as user, do fs setacl /afs/cell/dir/dir2 anyone anything to get fs: You don't have the required access rights on ... This is the expected behaviour,

Re: [OpenAFS] bos: can't open cell database

2007-01-16 Thread Christof Hanke
Michal Gutowski wrote: hi, my problem is, (on FC5) when i do /usr/afs/bin/ ./bosserver -noauth it makes me usr/local/etc/openafs/server/Thiscell and there is no CellServDB maybe it's no aproblem so i make next step ./usr/afs/bin/ ./bos setcellname open.tech.tc tech.tc -noauth bos: can't open

Re: [OpenAFS] question about zap/delete volumes

2006-11-27 Thread Christof Hanke
Hi, no, vos remove does delete the data on the server. vos remsite deletes only the entry. But note that you do not gain any (or not much) space by deleting a RO which resides on the same partition as the RW. This is due to the fact, that only differences to the RW are stored. Cheers,

Re: [OpenAFS] Help needed in configuring OpenAFS

2006-11-23 Thread Christof Hanke
Hi, OpenAFS-servers on not supported on Windows (yet). Maybe the Server-wizard should be disabled for now ? You must run them on a *ix-OS. /Christof [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I have installed OpenAFS 1.4.206 on Windows XP and Windows 2003. I have followed all the steps for installation

Re: [OpenAFS] Two afs cells in one server

2006-11-16 Thread Christof Hanke
Derek Atkins wrote: Nope, a single server can only server a single cell. You could run servers in vmware on different IP Addresses to get different cells. The AFS Client assumes services are on specific ports. If your server is multi-homed you could bind different servers to different IP

Re: [OpenAFS] failed fileserver ip address change

2006-10-27 Thread Christof Hanke
I browsed the list archives and found no case identical to this; though some were similar. One advice I found was to simply vos delentry -server old_ip and then sync the vldb and server. This sounds like a good solution, but I'm afraid it of what happens. Will the system now find the volumes

Re: [OpenAFS] failed fileserver ip address change

2006-10-27 Thread Christof Hanke
Juha Jäykkä wrote: the system now find the volumes from the new server? Yes, it will. Very nice, it indeed does. Thanks for a fast and precise reply! Those seven volumes that were inaccessible are now accessible again. No bother. For some reason I had to restart one of the client

Re: [OpenAFS] failed fileserver ip address change

2006-10-27 Thread Christof Hanke
Juha Jäykkä wrote: Hmm, so somehow it cached the location of the volume. I wonder if a fs checkvolumes would have helped. I'm not very experienced on afs, but I'm not *that* beginner either. =) I tried that, it simply complained that it could not contact the server at the old address. I'm not

Re: [OpenAFS] vos move volume failure.

2006-09-21 Thread Christof Hanke
Hi Ken, I guess you have still some parts of the volume 536870930 on endar, /vicepa. Although the volume-header file is gone (as the FileLog shows), some data are leftover. Check if there's a directory /vicepa/AFSIDat/G/G+++U/ on endar. This is the place where on a namei-server the data of a

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: list all AFS clients

2006-08-09 Thread Christof Hanke
Bascically what you do with this command is to check the active connections to one server. Thus, if a client never spoke to that server or only a long time ago (I don't know the timeout), you will not get it. So if you want to get all clients, you need to get a set of servers and be sure that

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: list all AFS clients

2006-08-09 Thread Christof Hanke
Edward Quick wrote: Thanks for your help again. When I run 'vos listaddrs' I get a list of servers, followed by the message: vos: could not list the server addresses vl: Index out of range Do you know what that is? No, never seen this one. Do you have anything special like a server with 10

Re: [OpenAFS] list all AFS clients

2006-08-08 Thread Christof Hanke
You can only list clients a fileserver knows about. If a client never connect to the cell, there's no easy way to get it. Try rxdebug servername -all and grep and awk to get the list of IP's this server knows about. You might do that on more than one server. Christof Edward Quick wrote: Hi,

Re: [OpenAFS] Restoring ownership information of filesystem structure on /vicep*

2006-08-03 Thread Christof Hanke
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Actually, no, it does NOT use anything special from the inode per se. It DOES use the Owner, Group and Mode bits (which are standard Unix metadata). It also uses the size (to know how big the file is). Why aren't you

Re: [OpenAFS] permission weirds

2006-07-19 Thread Christof Hanke
No, that's not the way to do it. You should create a file called CellAlias in the same directory as your CellServDB file containing following line : grand.central.org grand Christof Mike V wrote: Seems like I caused the problem. I modified the CellSerDB for my domain. I added a second entry

Re: [OpenAFS] speed of vos dump on linux gbit ethernet

2006-06-06 Thread Christof Hanke
Hi, Sven Oehme wrote: i know the difference between afsd.conf and the fileserver params , but i have no debian box in front of me, so i can't see what's in the script :-) but you answered me what i asked Lars for , there are no params :-) Lars , i would start with the following changes

[OpenAFS] afs_get_hash_stats: Warning! exceeded max bucket len

2006-05-29 Thread Christof Hanke
Hi List, does anybody know the possible reason(s) of the afs_get_hash_stats: Warning! exceeded max bucket len ... error of the afs-client ? Christof ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org

Re: [OpenAFS] connection timeouts

2006-05-16 Thread Christof Hanke
Hi, did you try a fs checkserver on the client while it thinks the server is down ? This should bring the connection up again without restarting the client. How long did you wait before restarting the client ? The client should do that all 3 min. or so. Is it always the same client ? Updating

Re: [OpenAFS] connection timeouts

2006-05-16 Thread Christof Hanke
Juha Jäykkä wrote: did you try a fs checkserver on the client while it thinks the server is down ? This should bring the connection up again without restarting the client. How long did you wait before restarting the client ? The client should do that all 3 min. or so. Is it always the same

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: AFSDB dns lookup

2006-04-04 Thread Christof Hanke
Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote: Also, a solution to what? We could probably make it possible to tell the cache manager to use DNS first, but what would be the point? IMHO, it's the same point why using DNS at all: If you have hundreds of clients with basically no administrative access, a

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS and Suse9.3 with 2.6 kernel and 64-bit

2006-01-25 Thread Christof Hanke
Incidentally I did that yesterday evening. Apparently the configure does not determine the Macros in src/config/afsconfig.h correctly. Thus, the compilation fails when it comes to the #ifdefs. Try attached patch to src/config/afsconfig.h (You probably have to do it manually). Here some

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS with RAID

2005-12-29 Thread Christof Hanke
Jeffrey Altman wrote: Stephan Wiesand wrote: Wouldn't it be an option to not take over the IP address, but just the vice partition? Once failure of the peer is recognized and confirmed (which is a problem, I agree, but not at all AFS-specific): 1) stonith 2) mount the new vice partition

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS with RAID

2005-12-29 Thread Christof Hanke
I did something like this years ago and it worked, but somehow I still have a bad feeling about doing it ;-) It only gets tricky, when you have two machines claiming to be the same server...;-) It was using FibreChannel devices, which are very easy to 'move'. It included moving the IP

Re: [OpenAFS] Questions about OpenAFS reality

2005-12-13 Thread Christof Hanke
Leroy Tennison wrote: ---snip--- Is there a Linux GUI for day-to-day administration? No, I'm afraid. 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, are there other

[OpenAFS] Automatic Updates for Windows?

2005-11-14 Thread Christof Hanke
Hi, is there an intrinsic automatic update mechanism to be expected for the OpenAFS Client for Windows ? If not, is there a guaranteed mechanism to do it by a script ? Secondly, I'd like to know in what timeframe the systray tool will be replaced. People are here reluctant to roll out the

[OpenAFS] Network Mapping vanishing on Windows

2005-11-09 Thread Christof Hanke
, but the drive mappings do not. Anything I can do about that one ? (The box reconnect at logon in the explorer-dialog is ticked, as above) Christof Christof Hanke e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] RZG (Rechenzentrum Garching)phone +49

Re: [OpenAFS] Network Mapping vanishing on Windows

2005-11-09 Thread Christof Hanke
Jeffrey Altman wrote: Do you have a conflicting drive mapping specified in the AFS Systray Tool that does not have the persistent drive mapping set? Note: the drive mapping functionality in the AFS Systray Tool will be removed when the AFS Systray Tool (afscreds.exe) is replaced in an upcoming

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