On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Jeff Blaine <jbla...@kickflop.net> wrote:

> We had trouble with this once in the past. We solved it by
> forcing the newer machines to set a custom sysname in afs.rc (like
> amd64_linux26_v2).
>
> Any other options, or is the standard thing everyone does?
>

We used distribution/version specific sysnames at CMU, with the default as
a fallback; so something like i386_rhel6, i386_rhel, i386_linux26 for the
sysname list on RHEL6.  (Practically, there might be one based on glibc
version in there too at a higher priority than the distribution one.)

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