On Tue, 16 May 2006, Rodney M Dyer wrote:
If "internally" the addhost/removehost commands do nothing more than "edit"
the files themselves, like a text editor, then they are "currently" only
practice policy. It sounds to me instead that they actually do more than
edit the files, because you actually have locking issues if the file server
process is trying to read the CellServDB files at the same time you would
manually copy over them. The addhost/removehost commands probably stop the
file server process from reading the files, update them, then allow them to
be read again.
Nope. Wrong sort of lock problem. They just edit the files.
1. The file server process actually reads the CellServDB file very
often.
2. Never copy over the CellServDB file because of #1.
3. Use "bos addhost/removehost" commands to change the CellServDB
files.
4. We should never have to "bos restart" a server to get it to see a
new cell server if we use bos addhost...right?
Well, if you have old buggy servers, you will...
Derrick
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