Re: [OpenAFS] Red Hat EL Support Customers - Please open a support case for kafs in RHEL8

2019-05-07 Thread Gary Gatling
On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 1:38 PM Jeffrey Altman wrote: > Gary, > > As far as I am aware there is no final decision either way with regards to > inclusion of kafs in rhel8. There are several components that were not > merged into Linux mainline until after the 4.18 kernel on which rhel8.0 is >

Re: [OpenAFS] Red Hat EL Support Customers - Please open a support case for kafs in RHEL8

2019-05-07 Thread Gary Gatling
It looks like Red Hat decided no concerning kafs and RHEL. This makes me sad since they couldn't even be bothered to tell us... [root@localhost ~]# modprobe kafs modprobe: FATAL: Module kafs not found in directory /lib/modules/4.18.0-80.el8.x86_64 [root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release Red

Re: [OpenAFS] Red Hat EL Support Customers - Please open a support case for kafs in RHEL8

2019-02-13 Thread Gary Gatling
Hello, The rpms I have been using are at: https://linux.itecs.ncsu.edu/redhat/public/openafs/rhel8/ They are flawed in 2 ways. 1. There is no EPEL repository yet. I am a fedora contributor and have a couple of packages in EPEL. But they did not make a branch in EPEL for RHEL 8 yet. So that

Re: [OpenAFS] Red Hat EL Support Customers - Please open a support case for kafs in RHEL8

2019-02-13 Thread Dave Botsch
Ok. I just openafs-1.8.2-1.src.rpm, and it does not build. Thanks. On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 03:13:06PM -0500, Gary Gatling wrote: > No. I have my own rpms that were descended from the rpmfusion repos before > they were abandoned. Except the kernel module rpm is something someone else > made here

Re: [OpenAFS] Red Hat EL Support Customers - Please open a support case for kafs in RHEL8

2019-02-13 Thread Gary Gatling
No. I have my own rpms that were descended from the rpmfusion repos before they were abandoned. Except the kernel module rpm is something someone else made here at NCSU that I heavily modified. I will try to upload those to a yum repo as soon as I fix my selinux issues. On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at

Re: [OpenAFS] Red Hat EL Support Customers - Please open a support case for kafs in RHEL8

2019-02-13 Thread Dave Botsch
Did you use the downloadable srpm from openafs.org ? On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 02:58:22PM -0500, Gary Gatling wrote: > I was able to get 1.8.2 to compile for RHEL 8 x86_64 but "kinit" seems to > be missing. :( > > On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 2:23 PM Dave Botsch wrote: > > > Has anyone gotten

Re: [OpenAFS] Red Hat EL Support Customers - Please open a support case for kafs in RHEL8

2019-02-13 Thread Gary Gatling
Ok. I had to install krb5-workstation-1.16.1-19.el8.x86_64.rpm :) It appears to be working for me. I'm sorry I don't have this in github. But I will try to put it on the web somewhere. I was able to create, alter. and delete files in the unity.ncsu.edu cell. There were some more minor selinux

Re: [OpenAFS] Red Hat EL Support Customers - Please open a support case for kafs in RHEL8

2019-02-13 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
kinit comes from krb5, not openafs. -Ben On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 02:58:22PM -0500, Gary Gatling wrote: > I was able to get 1.8.2 to compile for RHEL 8 x86_64 but "kinit" seems to > be missing. :( ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org

Re: [OpenAFS] Red Hat EL Support Customers - Please open a support case for kafs in RHEL8

2019-02-13 Thread Gary Gatling
I was able to get 1.8.2 to compile for RHEL 8 x86_64 but "kinit" seems to be missing. :( On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 2:23 PM Dave Botsch wrote: > Has anyone gotten openafs to compile under RHEL8 beta? I had tried > previously and no gold. If so, one could then test and again file a bug > report

Re: [OpenAFS] Red Hat EL Support Customers - Please open a support case for kafs in RHEL8

2019-02-13 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 2:24 PM Dave Botsch wrote: > Has anyone gotten openafs to compile under RHEL8 beta? I had tried > previously and no gold. If so, one could then test and again file a bug > report with RedHat saying "systemd --user breaks stuff" and here's the > business case.-- > > kafs's

Re: [OpenAFS] Red Hat EL Support Customers - Please open a support case for kafs in RHEL8

2019-02-13 Thread Dave Botsch
Has anyone gotten openafs to compile under RHEL8 beta? I had tried previously and no gold. If so, one could then test and again file a bug report with RedHat saying "systemd --user breaks stuff" and here's the business case. Thanks. On Sun, Dec 09, 2018 at 10:34:40AM +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:

Re: [OpenAFS] Red Hat EL Support Customers - Please open a support case for kafs in RHEL8

2018-12-09 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag, den 08.12.2018, 14:08 -0500 schrieb Jeffrey Altman: > On 12/8/2018 5:21 AM, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > Dirk Heinrichs: > > > > > Did a quick test (on Debian, btw., which already ships kafs) and > > > it > > > works fine. > > > > While getting tokens at login work with this setup,

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2018-12-09 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sat, 08 Dec 2018 13:32:08 +0100 (CET) schrieb Harald Barth : > Is this a problem due to AFS or due to the startup of the graphical > environment which nowadays may involve systemd --user services > instead of running all processes in the same session? No, it's not. Both desktop environments

Re: [OpenAFS] Red Hat EL Support Customers - Please open a support case for kafs in RHEL8

2018-12-08 Thread Jeffrey Altman
On 12/8/2018 5:21 AM, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Dirk Heinrichs: > >> Did a quick test (on Debian, btw., which already ships kafs) and it >> works fine. > > While getting tokens at login work with this setup, things start to fail > once the users $HOME is set to be in /afs. While simple scenarios

Re: [OpenAFS] Red Hat EL Support Customers - Please open a support case for kafs in RHEL8,Re: [OpenAFS] Red Hat EL Support Customers - Please open a support case for kafs in RHEL8

2018-12-08 Thread Harald Barth
> While getting tokens at login work with this setup, things start to fail > once the users $HOME is set to be in /afs. While simple scenarios like > pure shell/console logins work, graphical desktop environments have lots > of problems. XFCE4 doesn't even start, Plasma works to some degree

Re: [OpenAFS] Red Hat EL Support Customers - Please open a support case for kafs in RHEL8

2018-12-08 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Dirk Heinrichs: > Did a quick test (on Debian, btw., which already ships kafs) and it > works fine. While getting tokens at login work with this setup, things start to fail once the users $HOME is set to be in /afs. While simple scenarios like pure shell/console logins work, graphical desktop

Re: [OpenAFS] Red Hat EL Support Customers - Please open a support case for kafs in RHEL8

2018-12-07 Thread Jeffrey Altman
On 12/7/2018 4:00 AM, Harald Barth wrote: > > Hi Jeff, hi David! > > Has it been 17 years? Well, we are all getting - mature ;-) > > Obviously a file system is ready for use if it's old enough to buy > liquor (which difffers a little between countries). > >> When opening a support case please

Re: [OpenAFS] Red Hat EL Support Customers - Please open a support case for kafs in RHEL8

2018-12-07 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Jonathan Billings: > On my systems, I install the kafs-client package (currently in COPR, but > eventually to be in Fedora 29) that includes a kafs-aware aklog package, > and use pam_exec to have it run aklog as part of the PAM stack. Here's the > source:

Re: [OpenAFS] Red Hat EL Support Customers - Please open a support case for kafs in RHEL8

2018-12-07 Thread Jonathan Billings
On my systems, I install the kafs-client package (currently in COPR, but eventually to be in Fedora 29) that includes a kafs-aware aklog package, and use pam_exec to have it run aklog as part of the PAM stack. Here's the source: http://git.infradead.org/users/dhowells/kafs-client.git I append

Re: [OpenAFS] Red Hat EL Support Customers - Please open a support case for kafs in RHEL8

2018-12-07 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am 07.12.18 um 00:33 schrieb Jeffrey Altman: > 5. Are there features that OpenAFS has that kafs does not? > > Yes. kafs does not split horizon caching, it does not have an > equivalent of cache bypass, it does not implement any of the rxdebug or > xstat_cm statistics collection. Nor does it

Re: [OpenAFS] Red Hat EL Support Customers - Please open a support case for kafs in RHEL8

2018-12-07 Thread Harald Barth
Hi Jeff, hi David! Has it been 17 years? Well, we are all getting - mature ;-) Obviously a file system is ready for use if it's old enough to buy liquor (which difffers a little between countries). > When opening a support case please specify: > > Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux >

[OpenAFS] Red Hat EL Support Customers - Please open a support case for kafs in RHEL8

2018-12-06 Thread Jeffrey Altman
To all AuriStorFS licensees and OpenAFS users, After more than seventeen years of development led by David Howells, the Linux kernel now includes a production ready AFS/AuriStorFS client (kafs) and RX RPC protocol implementation (AF_RXRPC)[1]. These are not add-ons. kafs and af_rxrpc are baked