[OpenAFS] Client synchronization issues/Client caches are not being updated

2010-03-02 Thread Ken Elkabany
I have six client machines all accessing a single openafs server. The server and five clients are running Ubuntu 9.10 with openafs 1.4.10. About 80% of the time when a client modifies files on the afs, the changes are not reflected on the other clients, even after the file has been closed (a zip

Re: [OpenAFS] Client synchronization issues/Client caches are not being updated

2010-03-02 Thread Simon Wilkinson
On 2 Mar 2010, at 10:01, Ken Elkabany wrote: Is this expected behavior? I don't recall this being a problem when all our servers were on openafs 1.4.9. Is there a way to force the synchronization? This sounds like your clients are missing callback notifications. Is there anything funky

Re: [OpenAFS] Client synchronization issues/Client caches are not being updated

2010-03-02 Thread Derrick Brashear
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 5:01 AM, Ken Elkabany k...@elkabany.com wrote: I have six client machines all accessing a single openafs server. The server and five clients are running Ubuntu 9.10 with openafs 1.4.10. About 80% of the time when a client modifies files on the afs, the changes are not

Re: [OpenAFS] Client synchronization issues/Client caches are not being updated

2010-03-02 Thread Christof Hanke
Am Dienstag, 2. März 2010 11:01:22 schrieb Ken Elkabany: I have six client machines all accessing a single openafs server. The server and five clients are running Ubuntu 9.10 with openafs 1.4.10. About 80% of the time when a client modifies files on the afs, the changes are not reflected on

Re: [OpenAFS] Client synchronization issues/Client caches are not being updated

2010-03-02 Thread Ken Elkabany
Thanks! You were all spot on. Our internal firewalls had recently been updated to block port 7001. Ken On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 2:17 AM, Christof Hanke christof.ha...@rzg.mpg.dewrote: Am Dienstag, 2. März 2010 11:01:22 schrieb Ken Elkabany: I have six client machines all accessing a single

Re: [OpenAFS] vldb_check -servers cleanup and empty server entry messages

2010-03-02 Thread John W. Sopko Jr.
I did a bos restart server vldb on our 3 db server machines, did not help. I did a vos syncvldb and vos syncserv on our file servers and this did not help. I copied the /usr/afs/db/vldb.DB0 file and tried vldb_check vldb.DB0 -fix and this did not help. Do I need to worry about all the index

[OpenAFS] Re: BosConfig restarttime

2010-03-02 Thread Andrew Deason
On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 20:44:15 -0500 Stephen Repetski skrepet...@gmail.com wrote: My question is this: how relevant is this restart with the current stable (1.4.11) release of OpenAFS? It's not necessary. In 1.5/1.6, weekly reboots will no longer be the default. -- Andrew Deason

[OpenAFS] Any budding documentation writers

2010-03-02 Thread Simon Wilkinson
At one time, the OpenAFS users guide ( http://doc.openafs.org/UserGuide/index.html ) was a great place for new users of AFS to get started. It lays out the principles of AFS clearly, and guides users around many of the pitfalls they might encounter. However, it has rotted badly. It's stuck

Re: [OpenAFS] Any budding documentation writers

2010-03-02 Thread Jeffrey Altman
On 3/2/2010 2:05 PM, Simon Wilkinson wrote: However, it has rotted badly. It's stuck in the Kerberos v4 world of 'klog', and needs updating to the present day. The source is in docbook format (although it's already marked up, so docbook knowledge isn't really required), and is in our git

[OpenAFS] MIT kerberos 1.8 is released and disabled single DES by default

2010-03-02 Thread Jason Edgecombe
Hi, Since MIT released their kerberos 1.8 software today and it disables single DES by default, what steps should we take to educate new users about this? Any suggested specfiic documentation changes? Thanks, Jason Original Message Subject: krb5-1.8 is released Date:

Re: [OpenAFS] MIT kerberos 1.8 is released and disabled single DES by default

2010-03-02 Thread Simon Wilkinson
On 3 Mar 2010, at 00:28, Jason Edgecombe wrote: Hi, Since MIT released their kerberos 1.8 software today and it disables single DES by default, what steps should we take to educate new users about this? Any suggested specfiic documentation changes? We should push people towards 1.4.12,

Re: [OpenAFS] MIT kerberos 1.8 is released and disabled single DES by default

2010-03-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Jason Edgecombe ja...@rampaginggeek.com writes: Since MIT released their kerberos 1.8 software today and it disables single DES by default, what steps should we take to educate new users about this? Any suggested specfiic documentation changes? UNIX users shouldn't have to care about this

Re: [OpenAFS] MIT kerberos 1.8 is released and disabled single DES by default

2010-03-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery r...@stanford.edu writes: That fixes aklog and klog.krb5 to enable DES explicitly if the Kerberos implementation disables DES by default. Oh, it's worth noting that if you build against pre-1.8 and then upgrade the Kerberos libraries without rebuilding OpenAFS, you won't get the