[OpenAFS] Setting up new cell on RHEL4 - some help needed

2007-08-22 Thread Robert Sturrock
Hi. I'm new to AFS, and am trying to setup a cell from scratch on RHEL4 (64 bit). I have a few issues and questions I'd like to put forward. I've read the AFS book plus some of the online guides a couple of times, so I have some theoretical understanding of the technology but the implementation

Re: [OpenAFS] Setting up new cell on RHEL4 - some help needed

2007-08-22 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 22. August 2007 schrieb ext Robert Sturrock: Various servers seem to be running: Instance kaserver, currently running normally. If you're setting up a new cell anyway, you shouldn't use kaserver anymore. It's based on kerberos 4 technology, which is known to be insecure.

Re: [OpenAFS] Setting up new cell on RHEL4 - some help needed

2007-08-22 Thread Chris Huebsch
Hello, On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Robert Sturrock wrote: (I admit I don't really understand dynroot - it's enabled by default when the openafs-client starts, but I'm not sure if I want/need this or not). This seems to be the reason for your trouble. In former times (when Linux was just born), the

Re: [OpenAFS] cache problems in cluster environment

2007-08-22 Thread Thomas Sesselmann
Hello, Derrick J Brashear schrieb: On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, Thomas Sesselmann wrote: we are using OpenAFS in a cluster-environment. Now we have about 100 Linux-Clients (Ubuntu 6.06) with OpenAFS 1.4.1-2 (system-default). callback breaks being dropped, so the client isn't refetching. what on

Re: [OpenAFS] cache problems in cluster environment

2007-08-22 Thread Jeffrey Altman
Thomas Sesselmann wrote: I found the potential issue, i think. The UUID for the client (cache manager) isn't calculated: 'cmdebug client -addr' shows: UUID: ---00-00- Host interfaces: Capabilities: Error Translation This means that the client did not have an

Re: [OpenAFS] cache problems in cluster environment

2007-08-22 Thread Thomas Sesselmann
Hello, Thomas Sesselmann schrieb: I found the potential issue, i think. The UUID for the client (cache manager) isn't calculated: 'cmdebug client -addr' shows: UUID: ---00-00- Host interfaces: Capabilities: Error Translation to fast ... :-/ I read a

Re: [OpenAFS] cache problems in cluster environment

2007-08-22 Thread Thomas Sesselmann
Hello, Jeffrey Altman schrieb: Thomas Sesselmann wrote: I found the potential issue, i think. The UUID for the client (cache manager) isn't calculated: 'cmdebug client -addr' shows: UUID: ---00-00- Host interfaces: Capabilities: Error Translation This means

[OpenAFS] client version

2007-08-22 Thread Andrew Bacchi
Hi all, I there a way to tell which version of the AFS client is installed on an AIX machine? rxdebug -v gives me the version on a file server, is there one for the client? Thanks. -- veritatas simplex oratio est -Seneca Andrew Bacchi Systems Programmer Rensselaer

Re: [OpenAFS] client version

2007-08-22 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Andrew Bacchi wrote: Hi all, I there a way to tell which version of the AFS client is installed on an AIX machine? rxdebug -v gives me the version on a file server, is there one for the client? rxdebug works fine with the client, if you specify the client port (7001)

Re: [OpenAFS] Setting up new cell on RHEL4 - some help needed

2007-08-22 Thread Jason Edgecombe
Hi, Look here: http://www.openafs.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/openafs/doc/man-pages/pod8/afsd.pod?rev=1.10content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup for an explanation of the -dynroot option to afsd. We haven't had a 1.4.x release since I updated the documentation on that. I know the guide is out of date.

Re: [OpenAFS] Setting up new cell on RHEL4 - some help needed

2007-08-22 Thread Simon Wilkinson
On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Jason Edgecombe wrote: I know the guide is out of date. I plan to work on that some after I've updated the man pages. There's an updated Quick Start Guide in CVS which includes, amongst other changes the removal of the kaserver documentation, details on setting up a

Re: [OpenAFS] gnome-vfs and AFS home directories

2007-08-22 Thread Jack Neely
On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 05:24:57PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Jack Neely [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We are starting to deploy RHEL 5 with OpenAFS 1.4.4. All users have there home directories in AFS. The Trash can on the gnome desktop doesn't work. I found out that the Trash