Re: [OpenAFS] Stopping afsd on Solaris?

2005-10-28 Thread Sergio Gelato
* Coy Hile [2005-10-27 12:19:30 -0700]: On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, E. Chris Garrison wrote: Thanks for the suggestions, Coy. It doesn't complain about any of those, but the afsd processes are still running and 'modinfo' still shows the module. I've seen the same thing here on my systems.

Re: [OpenAFS] Stopping afsd on Solaris?

2005-10-28 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Sergio Gelato wrote: One caveat though is that if things are trying to access files in AFS on the client while you shutdown the client, the afsd processes won't die. Precisely. Having recently tried to upgrade OpenAFS on a Solaris 8 test system via the modunload route, I

Re: [OpenAFS] Stopping afsd on Solaris?

2005-10-28 Thread Sergio Gelato
* Derrick J Brashear [2005-10-28 08:51:46 -0400]: On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Sergio Gelato wrote: Precisely. Having recently tried to upgrade OpenAFS on a Solaris 8 test system via the modunload route, I can say that if AFS is in active use there is a good chance of the modunload approach triggering

[OpenAFS] Stopping afsd on Solaris?

2005-10-27 Thread E. Chris Garrison
Hello, We are in the process of deploying a large OpenAFS system on many different platforms, including central services. One such central service is a cluster of Solaris machines (running Solaris 8). The administrator of that cluster is concerned about running OpenAFS and does not like to

Re: [OpenAFS] Stopping afsd on Solaris?

2005-10-27 Thread Coy Hile
On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, E. Chris Garrison wrote: There seems to be no way to stop and restart the afsd on Solaris. Try this: #cd / #umount /afs #/usr/vice/etc/afsd -shutdown #modunload `modinfo | grep afs` to shutdown the client. I also use # /usr/afs/bin/bos shutdown localhost -localauth #

Re: [OpenAFS] Stopping afsd on Solaris?

2005-10-27 Thread E. Chris Garrison
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 12:01:39PM -0700, Coy Hile wrote: On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, E. Chris Garrison wrote: There seems to be no way to stop and restart the afsd on Solaris. Try this: #cd / #umount /afs #/usr/vice/etc/afsd -shutdown #modunload `modinfo | grep afs` to shutdown the

Re: [OpenAFS] Stopping afsd on Solaris?

2005-10-27 Thread Coy Hile
On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, E. Chris Garrison wrote: Thanks for the suggestions, Coy. It doesn't complain about any of those, but the afsd processes are still running and 'modinfo' still shows the module. I've seen the same thing here on my systems. When the processes are stuck (I think they're

Re: [OpenAFS] Stopping afsd on Solaris?

2005-10-27 Thread John Lockard
How about not running the afs client on the servers. Will cut down on overhead and you won't have that pesky problem. -John On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 02:11:14PM -0500, E. Chris Garrison wrote: On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 12:01:39PM -0700, Coy Hile wrote: On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, E. Chris Garrison

Re: [OpenAFS] Stopping afsd on Solaris?

2005-10-27 Thread Coy Hile
On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, John Lockard wrote: How about not running the afs client on the servers. Will cut down on overhead and you won't have that pesky problem. -John Good idea, but doesn't quite work that way in a lot of cases; the machine doing file service may also run services that need