Re: [OpenAFS] Questions about OpenAFS reality

2005-12-13 Thread Christof Hanke
Leroy Tennison wrote: ---snip--- Is there a Linux GUI for day-to-day administration? No, I'm afraid. What is the status of server-side byte-range locking? If this isn't a near-term reality what alternatives do people use (SQL server is obviously a possibility, are there other

Re: [OpenAFS] Questions about OpenAFS reality

2005-12-13 Thread Glenn Bjorcken
Christof Hanke wrote: Leroy Tennison wrote: ---snip--- What are people doing for printing, particularly Windows printing? OpenAFS is nothing like Samba where you share printers and files alike over the network. It's a filesystem. Printing has to be done separately. Still it's a valid

Re: [OpenAFS] Questions about OpenAFS reality

2005-12-13 Thread Horst Birthelmer
On Dec 13, 2005, at 1:20 PM, Leroy Tennison wrote: I am just learning OpenAFS and am very impressed with what I see so far. As a result I'm now interested in getting a broad overall picture of it and have several questions. A recent post stated that they had about 7000 users in a single

[OpenAFS] AFS integrated login on solaris9

2005-12-13 Thread lal anil
hi All I have configured AFS integrated login on solaris 9 . I have edited the pam.conf file as follows. # login auth requisite pam_authtok_get.so.1 login auth optional pam_dhkeys.so.1 login auth optional pam_unix_cred.so.1 login auth optional pam_unix_auth.so.1 login auth optional pam_afs.so.1

Re: [OpenAFS] Trouble setting up first server on FreeBSD 6.0

2005-12-13 Thread Steve Devine
Tony Shadwick - OSS Solutions wrote: I've been reading about OpenAFS for about a year, and administering FreeBSD servers full time for over 4 years now (wow! Been that long...), and I've been wanting something to combat the roaming profiles that windows provides, and it seems that OpenAFS

[OpenAFS] Fwd: AFS integrated login on solaris9

2005-12-13 Thread lal anil
Hi All Sorry for sending mail for a simple mistake. the problem that the root was not allowed to login OR close the session immediately after login was a missing line from in pam.conf file " login auth optional pam_unix_cred.so.1" Thanks u all, Looking forward.lal anil [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[OpenAFS] Re: Upgrade plan - any gotchas?

2005-12-13 Thread Steve Gaarder
Christopher D. Clausen wrote: What do you mean by Primary? Do you only have one AFS DB server for your cell? Most cells run at least 3 AFS DB servers (just look through the CellServDB file.) When you say second, what do you mean? I have two DB/PTS/file servers; the primary has IP xx.12,

Re: [OpenAFS] Trouble setting up first server on FreeBSD 6.0

2005-12-13 Thread Tony Shadwick - OSS Solutions
Respectfully, no. :) I'll be doing lots of things with our company, but Linux will be a desktop OS for us, as is MacOS X. FreeBSD is our server OS. The point of doing things like this is to document the issues and further development and support on the platforms we choose. There's already

[OpenAFS] AFS klog problem

2005-12-13 Thread lal anil
Hi All I have installed afs client on one of my s390 machines with configuration # cat /proc/version Linux version 2.6.5-7.97-s390 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.3 (SuSE Linux)) #1 SMP Fri Jul 2 14:21:59 UTC 2004 and following these steps : ./configure --enable-largefile-fileserver

Re: [OpenAFS] Questions about OpenAFS reality

2005-12-13 Thread Dan Pritts
On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 06:20:48AM -0600, Leroy Tennison wrote: A recent post stated that they had about 7000 users in a single cell, I'm wondering what a realistic maximum is (assume 'average' end user file activity - nothing extraordinary). I saw in the archives a refernce to 45k and a

Re: [OpenAFS] AFS klog problem

2005-12-13 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, lal anil wrote: *** In the ./configure steps I was getting error for --with-afs-sysname=s390_linux26 , So I replaced with --with-afs-sysname=i386_linux26 That's going to cause this problem: I get a weired error when I use klog command as shown below #klog anillal

[OpenAFS] -abortthreshold ?

2005-12-13 Thread Terry McCoy
Second time around, Anyone know the purpose of the option -abortthreshold for the fileserver binary in 1.4.1-rc2? +-------------------------- + | | | Terry McCoy

[OpenAFS] 1.4.1-rc2 feedback

2005-12-13 Thread Terry McCoy
Does anyone have anything to share about 1.4.1-rc2? I have sent [EMAIL PROTECTED] several reports with fileserver core dumps. I wish I could find out why it is dumping core so often. Also anyone know the purpose of -abortthreshold? in the fileserver +--------------

Re: [OpenAFS] 1.4.1-rc2 feedback

2005-12-13 Thread Christopher D. Clausen
Terry McCoy wrote: Does anyone have anything to share about 1.4.1-rc2? The client works fine on Windows from what I have seen so far. (Been on my latop and a few Windows Terminal Servers.) One of my users was having a problem getting tickets / tokens with the new KfW 3.0 plugin though.

Re: [OpenAFS] Questions about OpenAFS reality

2005-12-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Leroy Tennison [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A recent post stated that they had about 7000 users in a single cell, I'm wondering what a realistic maximum is (assume 'average' end user file activity - nothing extraordinary). I don't see any reason why there would ever be any maximum. I suppose at

Re: [OpenAFS] a familiar problem compiling aklog?

2005-12-13 Thread Derek Atkins
edwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does Kerberos have to be installed for openAFS to compile? Could you compile AFS and THEN compile Kerberos? If you want to build aklog then you need Kerberos first. -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT

Re: [OpenAFS] a familiar problem compiling aklog?

2005-12-13 Thread Ken Hornstein
Does Kerberos have to be installed for openAFS to compile? Could you compile AFS and THEN compile Kerberos? Perhaps you could temporarily rename the offending Kerberos libraries so that they are not an option, just when you build those particular make targets that require com_err? I suppose

Re: [OpenAFS] 1.4.1-rc2 feedback

2005-12-13 Thread Jeffrey Altman
Christopher D. Clausen wrote: The client works fine on Windows from what I have seen so far. (Been on my laptop and a few Windows Terminal Servers.) One of my users was having a problem getting tickets / tokens with the new KfW 3.0 plugin though. Hopefully he submitted bug reports to the

Re: [OpenAFS] a familiar problem compiling aklog?

2005-12-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Ken Hornstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does Kerberos have to be installed for openAFS to compile? Could you compile AFS and THEN compile Kerberos? Perhaps you could temporarily rename the offending Kerberos libraries so that they are not an option, just when you build those particular make

Re: [OpenAFS] a familiar problem compiling aklog?

2005-12-13 Thread Ken Hornstein
I think at this point every com_err library has diverged from every other com_err library. I'm not at all sure which com_err library out there is best at this point; the one in e2fsprogs is probably the most reliable in terms of backward compatibility, ... and no doubt is the least commonly

Re: [OpenAFS] Questions about OpenAFS reality

2005-12-13 Thread Jeffrey Altman
Leroy Tennison wrote: How stable and trouble free is the Windows client? (I saw a statement that the Windows server was considered experimental and not being maintained). Hosting AFS file, volume database, and protection servers on Microsoft Windows platforms is not recommended. There are

[OpenAFS] Re: 1.4.1-rc2 feedback

2005-12-13 Thread Terry McCoy
I have sent [EMAIL PROTECTED] several reports with fileserver core dumps. I wish I could find out why it is dumping core so often. On what OS? Solaris 8 I just compiled 1.4.1-rc2 (--enable-debug-lwp, as per recomendation) on Solaris 10 yesterday and I intend to install it on one of my

Re: [OpenAFS] a familiar problem compiling aklog?

2005-12-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Ken Hornstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think at this point every com_err library has diverged from every other com_err library. I'm not at all sure which com_err library out there is best at this point; the one in e2fsprogs is probably the most reliable in terms of backward compatibility,

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: 1.4.1-rc2 feedback

2005-12-13 Thread Christopher D. Clausen
Terry McCoy wrote: I have sent [EMAIL PROTECTED] several reports with fileserver core dumps. I wish I could find out why it is dumping core so often. On what OS? Solaris 8 Have you tried other 1.3.x builds? See if 1.3.81 is stable. I believe that the changes that possibly caused

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: 1.4.1-rc2 feedback

2005-12-13 Thread Horst Birthelmer
On Dec 13, 2005, at 10:56 PM, Christopher D. Clausen wrote: ... Is there a way to restart the bosserver process WITHOUT first stopping all other AFS server processes (and thus causing downtime?) I really don't like to wait for a salvage or have to vos move everything to another server.

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: 1.4.1-rc2 feedback

2005-12-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Christopher D Clausen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Are you by chance running on a single processor system? I had all kinds of problems using an Ultra 60 with a single proc. Not sure if that was the issue, but I'm going to assume that just about everyone running Solaris on sparc isn't using

Re: [OpenAFS] Questions about OpenAFS reality

2005-12-13 Thread lamont
On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Leroy Tennison wrote: Is there a Linux GUI for day-to-day administration? I've never seen an administration GUI that didn't fail to scale long before the scaling limits of the underlying technology were reached. Invariably, my day-to-day reality far exceeds the

Re: *** Spam *** [OpenAFS] Why Arla?

2005-12-13 Thread Jeffrey Hutzelman
On Sunday, December 04, 2005 09:08:16 AM -0700 Kim Kimball [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When AFS was still solely a proprietary product of Transarc/IBM there was no open source. Arla was implementing at least the AFS client when no client source was openly available. I expect there's more

[OpenAFS] Homedir Backup Strategies

2005-12-13 Thread lamont
Does it work to: 1. Have homedirs be forced-r/w mountpoints, use vos addsite / vos release for backups and do 'vos convertROtoRW' as recovery? I can't see why this one wouldn't work. 2. Do a 'vos copy' to another fileserver and then 'vos rename' the copy back to the original name for a

Re: [OpenAFS] a familiar problem compiling aklog?

2005-12-13 Thread edwin
Ken has suggested to me that changing include orders might fix the com_err problem with aklog. I'm willing to futz with that, but it seems that there must be a known solution somewhere. I don't think my systems are that non-standard, so I'd expect a lot of people to be bumping into this

Re: [OpenAFS] a familiar problem compiling aklog?

2005-12-13 Thread Russ Allbery
edwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ken has suggested to me that changing include orders might fix the com_err problem with aklog. I'm willing to futz with that, but it seems that there must be a known solution somewhere. I don't think my systems are that non-standard, so I'd expect a lot of

[OpenAFS] AFS klog problem

2005-12-13 Thread lal anil
Hi *** In the ./configure steps I was getting error for --with-afs-sysname=s390_linux26 , So I replaced with --with-afs-sysname=i386_linux26That's going to cause this problem: I get a weired error when I use klog command as shown below #klog anillal Password: stackcheck = 66051: stack =