Re: [OpenAFS] Manually Creating Cross Realm Users

2003-07-29 Thread Douglas E. Engert
Chris McClimans wrote: > > Is there a way to create an afs service principle and get the > appropriate keytab files out of a Microsoft win2k KDC? > I am not in administration for the remote KDC, and don't have a > user/admin principle on the MS KDC. Technically if you don't have admin rights on

Re[4]: [OpenAFS] .....exceeds the size limit

2003-07-29 Thread Ron Croonenberg
why didn't I think of thatthanks >You can restore the data from the dump file to any volume name you'd like. >(keeping in mind the length restrictions ;-) Remember that the volume >'homestaff.user.backup' is simply a readonly snapshot copy of >'homestaff.user' created at some instant in time.

RE: Re[2]: [OpenAFS] .....exceeds the size limit

2003-07-29 Thread Kevin Coffman
You can restore the data from the dump file to any volume name you'd like. (keeping in mind the length restrictions ;-) Remember that the volume 'homestaff.user.backup' is simply a readonly snapshot copy of 'homestaff.user' created at some instant in time. What you are doing with a restore is cre

Re: [OpenAFS] Manually killing fs processes

2003-07-29 Thread Todd DeSantis
Hi - >> > Is there a signal we can send to fileserver processes to tell them >> > to shut down cleanly, so that no long salvage will be required when >> > the new bosserver restarts everything? >> >> SIGKILL, same as a bos shutdown does. > Grr. SIGQUIT. Don't post when tired. And after using

Re[2]: [OpenAFS] .....exceeds the size limit

2003-07-29 Thread Ron Croonenberg
thanks for responding so quickly. Ok this works...but it restores the dump to the homestaff.user volume. Here's what I do to make a backup : I create a backup volume with vos. So if the volume is called homestaff.user, the backup volume is called homestaff.user.backup. Then I use vos to dump tha

RE: [OpenAFS] .....exceeds the size limit

2003-07-29 Thread Kevin Coffman
Try using "-name homestaff.user" rather than "-name homestaff.user.backup". The command is making sure it will have room to add ".backup" and ".readonly" to the name you giving it. That is where the size limit is being exceeded. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PR

Re: [OpenAFS] Disk Based Or Memory Based Cache

2003-07-29 Thread Derek Atkins
Hi, Lan Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > Which kind of cache do you recommend? Disk based or memory based? Is there > an upper limit of the meory besed cache? Well, it very much depends what you want the cache for. The disk cache is a bit slower than the memory cache, but it's pe

Re: [OpenAFS] Too dump to use patch...

2003-07-29 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Jerome Walter wrote: > > rm /usr/bin/patch > > > > Then download GNU patch and install it. > > Hem, using the gnu patch from a Debian, i get an enormous amount of failed > Hunks, so it should have some problems... Sure, but not the "I don't know what a unified diff is" proble

[OpenAFS] Disk Based Or Memory Based Cache

2003-07-29 Thread Lan Zhang
Hello, Which kind of cache do you recommend? Disk based or memory based? Is there an upper limit of the meory besed cache? The applications people usually run are : matlab, mathmetica, netscape, mozilla, maple, avs, idl, staroffice, etc. We use solaris 8, openafs 1.2.9. Thanks a lot. Zhang Lan

[OpenAFS] .....exceeds the size limit

2003-07-29 Thread Ron Croonenberg
I am trying to restore a backupvolume that I dumped with vos vos restore -server afsserver.depauw.edu -partition /vicepa -name homestaff.user.backup -f homestaff.user.backup -overwrite full -localauth the err msg I get is : vos: the name of the volume homestaff.user.backup exceeds the size limit

Re: [OpenAFS] Too dump to use patch...

2003-07-29 Thread Jerome Walter
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 10:59:54AM -0400, Derrick J Brashear wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Jerome Walter wrote: > > # patch -p1 < mit-patch > > Looks like a unified context diff. > > File to patch: > > > > Hem, should be too dumb to use patch correcly. What is the correct command so > > rm /usr/bi

Re: [OpenAFS] Too dump to use patch...

2003-07-29 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Jerome Walter wrote: > On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 04:27:16PM -0400, seph wrote: > > > But, under Windows, and a few under solaris, i get the following problem : MIT > > > Kerberos is not available for non US residents. I am inside europe, and thus > > > cannot get it. Perhaps i m