[OpenAFS] REMINDER: CFP deadline Feb 1 for AFS Kerberos Best Practices Workshop

2010-02-09 Thread Esther Filderman
Folks, Just a reminder that the deadline for the Call for Participation for the AFS Kerberos Best Practices Workshop ends on Monday, February 1. We encourage and need presentations from all sorts of people who work with OpenAFS and Kerberos, whether administrator or developer, and that range

[OpenAFS] CFP: AFS Kerberos Best Practices Workshop 2010

2010-01-11 Thread Esther Filderman
[Please forgive cross-posting.] The organizers of the AFS Kerberos Best Practices Workshop 2010 announces the Call For Participation. The CFP closes on Feb 1, 2010. Acceptances will be made on a continuing schedule based on fit with other talks. This year's Workshop will be held at the

Re: [OpenAFS] Setting the BOS Server's Restart Times

2010-01-11 Thread Esther Filderman
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Gary Gatling gsgat...@eos.ncsu.edu wrote: My boss mentioned that the restart feature was added in transarc 3.2. We are running openAFS 1.4.11. The restart feature was created because Transarc AFS leaked like a sieve with holes the size of Montana. If you

Re: [OpenAFS] afs root partition creation issue

2009-10-25 Thread Esther Filderman
On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Sriram Subramanian srir...@cs.wisc.edu wrote: Hi, Im trying to understand the functioning of the AFS protocol and so I'm trying to set up an AFS client and server machine inside our lab. One of the steps require us to setup the afs root partition using the vos

Re: [OpenAFS] vos move failures?

2009-10-21 Thread Esther Filderman
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Eric Chris Garrison ecgar...@iupui.edu wrote: No offense intended, but don't forget to check the simple things. A move taking so long on the same machine suggests to me that checking the status logs on your storage is a good idea. For want of a loose cable...

Re: [OpenAFS] long style command options

2009-10-01 Thread Esther Filderman
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Michael Meffie mmef...@sinenomine.net wrote: I noticed that new users to OpenAFS tend to be a bit surprised when command options cannot be prefixed with two dashes. For example, permit 'vos listvol --server' in addition to 'vos listvol -server ...'. I've

Re: [OpenAFS] AFS Mount Points, Nomenclature

2009-09-02 Thread Esther Filderman
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 1:15 AM, beelzskyliner...@yahoo.com wrote: Would someone explain the relationship of /afs and /vicepX to standard mount points that one sets up during a BSD or Linux install?  I'm new to AFS and I'm trying to determine how to partition my 1TB hard drive to give a large

Re: [OpenAFS] AFS Mount Points, Nomenclature

2009-09-02 Thread Esther Filderman
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Esther Fildermanmizmo...@gmail.com wrote: yeah i'm gonna stop babbling here and put all this crap somewhere more useful. :-P ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: afs: Lost contact with file server on the same machine?

2009-06-07 Thread Esther Filderman
I'm sorry nobody answered you the first time. Some questions: - Does the lost contact with server occur on all clients at the same time? Or is it scattered which one loses contact? - For how long does the lost contact occur? Is it seconds or minutes or longer? - Simple, stupid question:

Re: [OpenAFS] PTS sadness

2009-05-25 Thread Esther Filderman
Someone may come up with some magic tool I'm either unaware of or have forgotten, but with under 200 entries I'd literally just delete the old pts db and rebuild it from scratch. You should be able to get a rough idea of what the db should contain from the db pt_util gave you (it should be

Re: [OpenAFS] Strange behavior with Windows client.

2009-04-25 Thread Esther Filderman
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Anders Magnusson ra...@ltu.se wrote: Quick answer, great, thanks! Is there a FAQ somewhere with all these types of answers collected?  I haven't been able to find one. I'm working on it, but ... oh, don't ask. Let's just say months of work got destroyed a

[OpenAFS] Early Bird Registration for ABPW09 ends 4/21

2009-04-20 Thread Esther Filderman
Folks-- The Early Bird pricing for the Workshop ends tomorrow, April 21. If you haven't registered, do it quickly to avoid paying a higher price. Also, rooms are still available at the Stanford Guest House. We really need to fill rooms there. Hope to see you at the Workshop! Moose

[OpenAFS] Book your room for the ABPW09 NOW!

2009-03-26 Thread Esther Filderman
Folks, If you're even thinking about attending the AFS Kerberos Best Practices workshop this year, please reserve a room now! The block is up as of April 1, and we're low on reservations. We know times are tough and travel budgets are getting eaten left and right. But there's no penalty if

Re: [OpenAFS] vos move forgot to remove .backup volume.

2009-03-13 Thread Esther Filderman
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 7:16 AM, Harald Barth h...@kth.se wrote: In the volser log, I have a lot of messages like this: Fri Mar 13 02:47:06 2009 trans 248 on volume 537084431 is older than seconds which end at = 7350. After that silence in the logfile. So is there some

[OpenAFS] Register for the OpenAFS Kerberos Best Practices Workshop 2009

2009-02-16 Thread Esther Filderman
Registration for the OpenAFS Kerberos Best Practices Workshop is now available on the website, http://workshop.openafs.org/. Register by April 21, 2009 to get the best prices. AFS and Kerberos tutorials are $100 each, the Workshop itself is $150, or register for all three for only $300. After

Re: [OpenAFS] some afs clients are unreachable afs servers from time to time.

2009-01-19 Thread Esther Filderman
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 8:59 PM, TIARA System Man sys...@tiara.sinica.edu.tw wrote: thank you.. : ) but, i have further questions. if you could tell me more, it will be appreciated. there should be the reason afs programmers let server restart at sunday 4am by default. if i turn it off, will

[OpenAFS] Deadline- Jan 9! CFP: 2009 OpenAFS Kerberos Best Practices Workshop

2009-01-05 Thread Esther Filderman
This is a reminder that the Call for Participation for the 2009 OpenAFS Kerberos Best Practices Workshop will end Friday January 9, 2009. We look forward to hearing about your talk! Submit your talk at: http://workshop.openafs.org/afsbpw09/cfp.html Acceptances will be made based upon quality,

Re: [OpenAFS] openafs performace problems

2008-12-31 Thread Esther Filderman
To some degree, OpenAFS will always write slower than standard NFS, because AFS is actually making sure it's not writing crap. NFS will happily write stuff at blazingly fast speeds, not caring whether the data it writes is sane or corrupted. I'm told that you can tell NFSv3 to do error checking

Re: [OpenAFS] Problem with OpenAFS on Vista x86

2008-12-31 Thread Esther Filderman
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 6:17 PM, Paul Accisano shiningmasam...@gmail.com wrote: When I install Kerberos, it asks me for a configuration file. I don't have one, Somewhere for your cell there is a krb5.ini or, in Unix Land, krb5.conf file. Alternatively you need to find out the name(s) of your

Re: [OpenAFS] Changing the hostname of AFS server

2008-12-04 Thread Esther Filderman
On 12/3/08, dave first [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am new to AFS. I have inherited an old, crusty, but functional Transarc AFS cluster of three servers running on Solaris 5.8. Unfortunately, the hardware has become unstable. I have installed OpenAFS server on Linux which

Re: [OpenAFS] Changing the hostname of AFS server

2008-12-04 Thread Esther Filderman
On 12/4/08, dave first [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, I did this under the quickly departing tutelage of the admin who has left, and don't really understand some nuances about the structure yet. You will learn, grasshopper. So, the question then becomes, can I just use directories

[OpenAFS] CFP: 2009 OpenAFS Kerberos Best Practices Workshop

2008-11-20 Thread Esther Filderman
The Sixth Annual International AFS Kerberos Best Practices Workshop announces the 2009 Call For Participation. Come talk to your peers about: * Completed projects * Best practices * Work in progress * Related research * Theories * Updates on previous

Re: [OpenAFS] Foundation Board - Grandfather In The Elders?

2008-11-14 Thread Esther Filderman
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Evan Macbeth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To the AFS Community, I had an idea on Thursday about the Foundation and the Board of Directors This is purely my own idea speaking as an individual member of the community (and a suit at that), not as a Director at Sine

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS Quotas

2008-10-23 Thread Esther Filderman
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 8:05 PM, Loren M. Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a dedicated partition for my OpenAFS server mounted at /vicepa and several volumes on it. Do I need to make sure that the total of all the quotas on all my volumes do not exceed my partition size or does OpenAFS

Re: [OpenAFS] VLDB problem - Duplicate entries

2008-09-15 Thread Esther Filderman
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 4:50 PM, William Setzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Our first thought is to do a vos syncvldb/vos syncserv, but we don't know if this will fix the problem, particularly in the case of duplicate entries pointing to the same place. Our second thought is to do it after

Re: [OpenAFS] backup volume errors

2008-08-18 Thread Esther Filderman
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Mitchell Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a backup volume that is giving me problems. A vos e of the R/W volume shows no problems. But if I do a listvol of another server and partition I get a message Could not attach volume 536930065 Which

Re: [OpenAFS] backup volume errors

2008-08-18 Thread Esther Filderman
Let's try this again with an actual reply. On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 2:11 PM, Esther Filderman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Mitchell Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a backup volume that is giving me problems. A vos e of the R/W volume shows no problems

Re: [OpenAFS] inode to namei process

2008-07-01 Thread Esther Filderman
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Jeff Blaine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a good way to dump and restore active RW volumes? We'd like to make each RW volume briefly unavailable during the process: block, dump, restore, unblock If you're moving from an inode-based server to a name-i based

Re: [OpenAFS] Basic OpenAFS questions

2008-06-26 Thread Esther Filderman
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 1:26 PM, outsider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm considering using OpenAFS on my home system/LAN, but have a few questions first (things thate not quite clear) before I take the plunge. 1. Is AFS a tool that is used on top of existing file systems? Do I still format my

Re: [OpenAFS] Replication

2008-06-26 Thread Esther Filderman
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 7:07 AM, Lara Lloret Iglesias [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've just installed two afs servers on the same cell, but I've problems with them. I've done a mkmount and everything works fine, but when I try to make another mount point, it just duplicates the content of

Re: [OpenAFS] Summary of recommended configuration options from the workshop

2008-05-29 Thread Esther Filderman
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Steve Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yet another good reason for us to bring up a test server with it. We're in early deployment of this summer's upgrades; as soon as the initial set is up we're going to be trying out a test 1.5 server. Yes, Moose, this

Re: [OpenAFS] Summary of recommended configuration options from the workshop

2008-05-29 Thread Esther Filderman
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Jeffrey Altman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andy Cobaugh wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong, but I seem to recall someone mentioning that there were certain cases when running fastrestart where volumes might end up being attached even if they need salvaging, leading

Re: [OpenAFS] Summary of recommended configuration options from the workshop

2008-05-29 Thread Esther Filderman
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 2:35 PM, Jeffrey Altman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Regardless, Demand Attach is the best answer we have available. With DAFS you can restart your file servers and the clients never have to be sent callback notifications because all of the existing callbacks are restored

Re: [OpenAFS] Summary of recommended configuration options from the workshop

2008-05-29 Thread Esther Filderman
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 7:17 PM, Esther Filderman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Steve Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yet another good reason for us to bring up a test server with it. We're in early deployment of this summer's upgrades; as soon as the initial set

Re: [OpenAFS] Migrate users vom IBM-AFS to OpenAFS

2008-05-19 Thread Esther Filderman
To repeat/simplify what Harald said: - Set up new server as part of your cell . (keep the cell name, keyfile, etc. the same. Make sure you make a CSDB for both machines that know about *both* servers as db servers for the cell) When you fire up the pt (and vl, etc.) server, the AIX box will

Re: [OpenAFS] Getting Tickets but not Tokens

2008-05-11 Thread Esther Filderman
On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 5:16 PM, Jason C. Wells [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want you on my OpenAFS bar trivia team. Dude. We shoudl SO do this at the Workshop. :-P ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: [OpenAFS-devel] An open letter from the OpenAFS Council of Elders

2008-05-11 Thread Esther Filderman
On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Rodney M. Dyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your benefit back is the continual improvement and debugging of OpenAFS. You should have already contracted with either Secure Endpoints http://www.secure-endpoints.com, or Sine Nomine

Re: [OpenAFS] Newbie Question

2008-05-02 Thread Esther Filderman
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Gary Bowling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One more piece of info, Steve asked what the output of klog admin was, which might point to something. klog admin Password: Unable to authenticate to AFS because Authentication Server was unavailable. klog is a

Re: [OpenAFS] do the servers pick up CellServDB changes without a restart?

2008-04-16 Thread Esther Filderman
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Adam Megacz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When a new server is added to a cell, is it necessary to bos restart the existing servers to make them notice the changes to CellServDB, or are these changes picked up automatically by vlserver/ptserver/etc? IIRC only

Re: [OpenAFS] best practice for salvage

2008-04-10 Thread Esther Filderman
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED],Jeffrey Altman writes: What normal successfully completed operation is leaving unreferenced .__afs files behind? Lets fix the bug. good idea. i dont know how you fix

Fwd: [OpenAFS] best practice for salvage

2008-04-03 Thread Esther Filderman
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 1:43 PM, Andrew Bacchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm considering running a weekly salvage on all file servers from BosConfig. Is this too often? Any reason not to? What are others doing? Thanks. At my last *cough* site, we ran with fast-restart. Because of the cruft

[OpenAFS] Reminder: CFP Registration for OpenAFS Kerberos Best Practices Workshop '08

2008-03-13 Thread Esther Filderman
[apologies for the cross-posting] http://workshop.openafs.org/afsbpw08/ March 19th is the deadline for submitting your idea for a talk for the OpenAFS Kerberos Best Practices Workshop 2008. Come talk about work you've done, work you're doing, best practices, feature development or something

Re: [OpenAFS] RO vol mistake

2008-02-29 Thread Esther Filderman
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Steve Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We recently did an addsite to a regular volume by mistake. IE: This vol was non-replicated. And in the course of moving it it had a site added to it and now its a replicated volume. Is there any reason we can't just

Re: [OpenAFS] A hearty thanks to all OpenAFS developers -- especially Jeff, Derrick crew

2008-02-28 Thread Esther Filderman
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 3:57 PM, Jason Edgecombe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I just wanted to give a heart-felt thanks to Jeff, Derrick, and all the other people who contribute to OpenAFS. Oh, for crying out loud - as if their heads weren't big enough as it is. There isn't enough

[OpenAFS] CFP : AFS Kerberos Best Practices Workshop 2008

2007-12-10 Thread Esther Filderman
[Apologies for cross-posting] The AFS Kerberos Best Practices Workshop 2008 announces the 2008 Call For Participation. Come talk to your peers about: * Completed projects * Work in progress * Theories * Best practices * Related research * Updates on previous talks or

[OpenAFS] Can your AFS site be used in PR?

2007-10-16 Thread Esther Filderman
Folks, I'm developing a pamphlet that can be used to publicize OpenAFS at various events and such. I'd like to place on it a list of sites that use OpenAFS. Can I use your site? If so, please tell me the proper name of your site, and what you use it for, and how big (servers data amount) your

[OpenAFS] REMINDER: LAST DAY [AFS Kerberos Best Practices Workshop 2007: CFP Extended]

2007-04-06 Thread Esther Filderman
[Please forgive the cross-posting, and please feel free to pass this further along] The AFS Kerberos Best Practices Workshop is extending it's Call for Participation to April 6th, with notifications being made on or before April 9th. We hope to see you there! http://www.pmw.org/afsbpw07

[OpenAFS] AFS Kerberos Best Practices Workshop 2007: CFP Extended Registration Available!

2007-03-27 Thread Esther Filderman
[Please forgive the cross-posting, and please feel free to pass this further along] Due to some difficulties, the AFS Kerberos Best Practices Workshop is extending it's Call for Participation to April 6th, with notifications being made on or before April 9th. ** Registration is now available.

Re: [OpenAFS] user problem

2007-01-09 Thread Esther Filderman
Is the user in the password file of the machine? su is a unix command, not an AFS command. ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info

[OpenAFS] CFP: AFS Kerberos Best Practices Workshop 2007

2006-12-18 Thread Esther Filderman
[Please forgive the cross-posting, and please feel free to pass this further along] The organizers of the Fourth Annual International AFS Kerberos Best Practices Workshop 2007 announce the Call For Participation. Come talk to your peers about - Work completed - Work in progress - Theories -

Re: [OpenAFS] DB servers seperate from fileservers

2006-08-08 Thread Esther Filderman
On 8/7/06, Christopher D. Clausen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Umm, am I missing something? One of the major reasons I use AFS is the vos move command. And it was my understanding that AFS can handle server outages without breaking. Do you all have different experiences? If AFS can't handle a

Re: [OpenAFS] DB servers seperate from fileservers

2006-08-07 Thread Esther Filderman
On 8/7/06, John Hascall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) Stability. The uptime of our DB servers is years, we can only dream of that for our fileservers. I'm currently running a mix. My primary KDC and 'lowest IP DB server is a non-fileserver machine. The other two boxes do both. In

[OpenAFS] Re: [lopsa-tech] Re: [SAGE] Code to demo NFS/UDP weakness?

2006-08-02 Thread Esther Filderman
Indeed. In fact, I come from a FreeBSD environment where AFS isn't even an option. ;) OpenAFS isn't (yet) an option as a client. I'm pretty sure there's an Arla client, though. You can have FreeBSD servers. All my servers are NetBSD. ___

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Server down, other server ready to serve its data: vos delentry question

2006-08-01 Thread Esther Filderman
On 8/1/06, Jeff Blaine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ Thanks Esther ] Let's assume for the sake of this discussion that the old server (downserver) cannot be brought up in order to syncvldb against the empty /vicep mount points. Let's also assume that OpenAFS is not being used, but IBM AFS is

Re: [OpenAFS] Server down, other server ready to serve its data: vos delentry question

2006-07-31 Thread Esther Filderman
Questions: I can't easily test these. Obviously a 'vos syncvldb up' needs to happen at some point. 1. Is it necessary (and wise) to use 'vos delentry -server downserver' beforehand to avoid VLDB issues? 2. OR... will 'vos syncvldb downserver' then 'vos syncvldb up' cause the dead

Re: [OpenAFS] Bogus volumes after RAID rebuild and fsck

2006-07-19 Thread Esther Filderman
On 7/19/06, Derrick J Brashear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My experience is that they're just that -- bogus volumes. They're trash. Ignore 'em or vos zap 'em. Well, let's just say that practical experience says killing them blindly is asking to bend over. Know what you kill before you kill it.

Re: Re[2]: [OpenAFS] token lifetime

2006-06-29 Thread Esther Filderman
On 6/29/06, Ken Hornstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am not using kerberos (yet), so I have to set it with kas. Can it be set to never expire ? or is the maximum lifetime 720 hours ? Just as a note ... if you set you tickets to never expire (which I don't think is possible with the current

Re: [OpenAFS] what has happened to the Workshop web site?

2006-06-22 Thread Esther Filderman
On 6/22/06, Brian Sebby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Speaking of the workshop, are the remaining slides going to go up? I'd like to save a few for future reference, and read through the ones I missed on Thursday when I got sick. It's up to the authors to send us stuff. They're not required to,

Re: [OpenAFS] Problems with OpenAFS 1.4.1.

2006-06-16 Thread Esther Filderman
I don't suppose you'd care to offer a backtrace? My powers of guessing are at an all time low this month. Please excuse our *quality* customer service. We've forgotten to apply the appropriate beatings this week. ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list

Re: [OpenAFS] Best Practices Seminar 2006

2006-06-07 Thread Esther Filderman
For those of us non-local, a shuttle bus will run from the Holiday Inn in the mornings and evenings. Info to be posted on the Workshop website asap. ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org

Re: [OpenAFS] workshop confirmation

2006-05-24 Thread Esther Filderman
There was one in your browser, but I'll take care of it. e. On 5/24/06, Andrew Bacchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My manager informs me I need a receipt/confirmation for the U Mich Workshop. I don't remember getting one via email, or on my browser when I registered. Is there any way I can get a

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS and Kerberos Workshop 2006

2006-05-11 Thread Esther Filderman
Sadly, the page used [from acis.as.cmu.edu] is out of our control. I can complain to CMU about it, but who knows what will happen. [The info for the page does claim that it is AES-256 256 bit encrypted, if that means anything.] On 5/11/06, Robert Petkus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, the

[OpenAFS] Register for the AFS Kerberos Workshop

2006-05-04 Thread Esther Filderman
[again, sorry for the cross-posting. PLEASE feel free to forward this along and/or suggest other places this should be posted!] Registration is now open for the AFS Kerberos Workshop 2006, to be held June 12-16 on the campus of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Once again we are

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS and Kerberos Workshop 2006...

2006-05-02 Thread Esther Filderman
On 5/2/06, Rodney M Dyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know the status of this years workshop? I'd like to know the price and how to register. The website is a bit lacking in that area. That's my favorite thing about you, Rodney, your undending patience :-P. Registration will be up in a

[OpenAFS] Reminder: AFSBPW06 CFP ends 4/21

2006-04-20 Thread Esther Filderman
[apologies for the cross posting] The AFS Kerberos Best Practices Workshop 2006 announces the Call For Papers Talks. Come talk to your peers about - Work completed - Work in progress - Theories - Best practices - Related research or something else that has tickled your brain while

Re: [OpenAFS] Cache problems, how best to flush the ENTIRE cache.

2006-03-28 Thread Esther Filderman
On 3/28/06, Dave Blakemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My question: Is there a way to completely flush the entire cache to ensure its integrity? The easiest way to flush the cache is to do fs setcache 1 which tries to set the cachesize to 1. This will take a while, depending on the size of

[OpenAFS] CFP: AFS Kerberos Best Practices Workshop 2006

2006-03-24 Thread Esther Filderman
[Please forgive cross-posting.] The AFS Kerberos Best Practices Workshop 2006 announces the Call For Papers Talks. Come talk to your peers about - Work completed - Work in progress - Theories - Best practices - Related research or something else that has tickled your brain while working

[OpenAFS] Announcement: AFS Kerberos Best Practices Workshop 2006

2006-03-20 Thread Esther Filderman
The 2006 AFS Kerberos Best Practices Workshop will be held June 13 through 17 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on the campus of the University of Michigan. For all interested parties, from novice through the most experienced, the Workshop offers an AFS tutorial (June 13), a Kerberos tutorial (June 14)

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS with RAID

2005-12-28 Thread Esther Filderman
I believe this scenario will not work because the VLDB entries for all of the volumes that are being mounted by Server B are listed as being on Server A. Since Server A is unreachable, the volume server when performing the vos syncvldb and vos syncserv steps will not be able to verify that

Re: [OpenAFS] files missing from incremental vos restore

2005-11-05 Thread Esther Filderman
On 11/4/05, Christoph Scheurer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, at our site we are using OpenAFS to serve home-directories for about 60 users. On Oct 27. we had a hardware failure on an AFS fileserver partition and had to restore volume dumps from our backup. The restore procedure finished

Re: [OpenAFS] setting up AFS server on Panther Q

2005-10-28 Thread Esther Filderman
On 10/27/05, aK [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: any links do you know where I can get a doc on how to setup a afs server on Panther? To my knowledge there is no Panther specific AFS documentation at this time. ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list

[OpenAFS] AFS Workshop at LISA 2005

2005-10-28 Thread Esther Filderman
AFS administrators attending the LISA 2005 conference in San Diego are invited to participate in a one-day AFS workshop. The workshop will be held on Tuesday, December 6; the LISA conference is December 7-9. The AFS workshop at LISA is designed for experienced AFS administrators to share

Re: [OpenAFS] Can't mount AFS

2005-10-16 Thread Esther Filderman
On 10/14/05, Jason Frisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *3. # */usr/afs/bin/fs setacl /afs/*cellname *system:anyuser rl Hmm. I am not sure what is what in this one.. Is system:anyuser the acl? what is r1..the id? system:anyuser is a pre-defined short-hand pts group which means anyone in AFS-land,

Re: [OpenAFS] transarc.com

2005-09-21 Thread Esther Filderman
On 9/21/05, ed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Why does transarc.com point to a porn site? Gee, AFS doesn't get YOU all hot and bothered? :-) ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org

Re: [OpenAFS] new logo for OpenAFS

2005-09-19 Thread Esther Filderman
On 9/19/05, Norbert Gruener [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: would it be possible to use that logo on my AFSPerl Kwiki about the AFS Perl API http://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/kwiki/nog/afsperl/ I don't see why not. It'd be nice if you made the logo link back to the OpenAFS web site, too.

Re: [OpenAFS] Volumes that need to be salvaged

2005-09-05 Thread Esther Filderman
On 9/5/05, Jason Mader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the procedure to fix the following? @(#) OpenAFS 1.4.0-rc3 built 2005-09-05 09/05/2005 10:49:23 STARTING AFS SALVAGER 2.4 (/usr/local/libexec/ openafs/salvager) 09/05/2005 10:49:23 Starting salvage of file system partition /vicepa

Re: [OpenAFS] Volumes that need to be salvaged

2005-09-05 Thread Esther Filderman
This is a Linux box with a namei fileserver, right? I mean, this almost looks like an inode fileserver that someone ran regular fsck on. ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS in a production environment

2005-09-03 Thread Esther Filderman
On 9/3/05, Derek Atkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeffrey Hutzelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Frankly, I hate the included backup system. However, there are a number of good alternatives available, depending on your environment. Which good alternatives exist? Due to the nature of the

[OpenAFS] Re: [OpenAFS-Doc] IBM source docs

2005-08-25 Thread Esther Filderman
Are there any contacts at IBM that could provide the original .scr files for the documentation? The IBM doc pdf and htm files appear to have been emitted using a document system possible internal to IBM. Once again: Nobody has the original source. There are IBM people on the Elders board.

Re: [OpenAFS] RE: [OpenAFS-Doc] Apologies about documentation mess

2005-08-19 Thread Esther Filderman
On 8/19/05, ted creedon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All of them. Period. tedc -Original Message- From: chas williams - CONTRACTOR [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] it may come as a shock that there are other platforms besides Linux. how many platforms need to be stable for you to continue

Re: [OpenAFS] replication issues 1.3.85

2005-07-23 Thread Esther Filderman
On 7/22/05, Jeffrey Altman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Esther Filderman wrote: Since RW data is static, RO data is not used to cover for unavailable RW data. Esther meant to say: Since the data stored in a RW volume is volatile, a RO volume cannot be used to provide automatic failover

Re: [OpenAFS] Documetation for asetkey and aklog

2005-07-08 Thread Esther Filderman
Did you even ask Ken first before mucking with his file(s)? Please do not latex-ify the AFS FAQ. e. On 7/8/05, ted creedon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ken Hornstein's FAQ is now in Latex format. Perhaps an update would be in order for 1.4? Obsolete docs and links are a real problem.

Re: [OpenAFS] Documetation for asetkey and aklog

2005-07-08 Thread Esther Filderman
for the 1.4 release? tedc -Original Message- From: Esther Filderman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 9:35 AM To: ted creedon Cc: openafs-info@openafs.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] Documetation for asetkey and aklog Did you even ask Ken first

Re: SPAM-LOW: RE: [OpenAFS] Documetation for asetkey and aklog

2005-07-08 Thread Esther Filderman
On 7/8/05, Ken Hornstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This illustrates _exactly_ my feelings about documentation formats. Basically, I don't give a shit about 90% of the worthless crap that these systems do (yeah, I'm going to be writing a WHOLE LOT of theorems in the Kerberos FAQ); what I want is

Re: [OpenAFS] added server user access

2005-06-18 Thread Esther Filderman
You're misunderstanding the way servers work in AFS. You're thinking in NFS terms, where you have to manipulate the server's contents based on the servers themselves. In AFS, all servers are one big global space. Whether you have one server or one hundred, everything lives in

Re: [OpenAFS] Problem accessing AFS from other systems

2005-06-16 Thread Esther Filderman
Silly thought -- unless you're using AFSDB, have you put your new cell in the CellServDB of the clients? ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info

Re: [OpenAFS] Residence Inn booking for OpenAFS conference

2005-06-13 Thread Esther Filderman
The AFS workshop rate was only guaranteed for a period of time or until a set number of rooms were sold. The special rate is not supposed to be available anymore. That said, whomever you spoke to on the phone was a moron. CMU would not be able to help get a hotel rate, only the specific hotel

Re: [OpenAFS] Documentation project comments

2005-06-11 Thread Esther Filderman
On 6/11/05, ted creedon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Progress on a long forgotten front. If any material improvements to the text are made please forward so they can be incorporated.. tedc Once again: this is supposed to be an open-source group-oriented project. Documentation that only one

Re: [OpenAFS] Documentation project comments

2005-06-10 Thread Esther Filderman
On 6/10/05, ted creedon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For what its worth, I think html documentation with hyperlinks is not the best way to go. It just happened to get done first on the second round of conversions. Yes, you've made your bias clear since you started this. While I sincerely

Re: [OpenAFS] new logo for OpenAFS

2005-06-10 Thread Esther Filderman
The new logo was designed by Jessi Bencloski [benwhoski.com] and is owned by OpenAFS. It's also available on cra-- er, High Quality Merchandise on the OpenAFS CafePress store[all proceeds go to to fund OpenAFS]. On 6/7/05, Paul Blackburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just wanted to mention the new

Re: [OpenAFS] Documentation project comments

2005-06-10 Thread Esther Filderman
On 6/10/05, chas williams - CONTRACTOR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there any hope of someone doing something with the man pages? yes, i am a dinosaur, i still like man pages. I think Russ Allbery was working on man pages a while ago. Oh, Russ, whatever happened?

Re: [OpenAFS] Documentation project update

2005-06-04 Thread Esther Filderman
On 6/3/05, ted creedon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, The documentation project is finished except for hyperlinks. That's a very nice planet you live on. The conversion from IBM htm to tex is stable and the conversion from tex to html, dvi or pdf is also stable. Oh, you mean the project to

Re: [OpenAFS] Best Practices Workshop 2005?

2005-05-22 Thread Esther Filderman
Very soon, hopefully within hours.. Sorry, been having serious technical difficulties. e. On 5/17/05, Rodney M Dyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what is the latest with the CMU OpenAFS 2005 workshop? When can we register? Is this thing still a go? Rodney Rodney M. Dyer Windows

Re: [OpenAFS] deleting volumes

2005-04-15 Thread Esther Filderman
Just as creating a volume doesn't automagically mount it, deleting a volume doesn't automatically remove the mount point. On a Unix box you'd do fs rmm mountpointname. On 4/15/05, Ron Croonenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I used the AFS server manager (1.3.77) to delete some

Re: [OpenAFS] Speed tests on our AFS Cell

2005-04-14 Thread Esther Filderman
On 4/13/05, Matt Elliott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 13, 2005, at 6:53 AM, Lars Schimmer wrote: Another question I've got is about cache-size: I read somewhere to set cache size to roughly 1 GB on disk cache. Is it a real nice one to set such a big cache at normal work or is it more

Re: [OpenAFS] Newbie

2005-04-13 Thread Esther Filderman
On 4/12/05, Simon Lyngshede [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes and no, OpenBSD do ship the source code for the Arla server (milko), but not a precompiled working version of Milko. Also you should note that Milko is not tested to the same extend as the OpenAFS server, also I believe it lacks a lot of

Re: [OpenAFS] Newbie

2005-04-12 Thread Esther Filderman
On 4/12/05, ed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, OpenAFS seems rather tricky, but I'm determined to get it operating locally. AFS can have a sharp learning curve, but once you get the hang of it, it's yummy stuff. OpenBSD seems to come with a OpenAFS client, by Arla, but is there a server

Re: [OpenAFS] Linux client and find command in AFS

2005-04-07 Thread Esther Filderman
You are right, directories are odd, files are even. The original Andrew folk wrote a tool called ws which is an AFS-aware find that takes advantage of the inode numbering. You can find sources and help pages in /afs/psc.edu/usr/ecf/src/ws. On Apr 7, 2005 9:48 AM, Jim Rees [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS/Krb5/s390x/Linux 2.6

2005-03-29 Thread Esther Filderman
Read a used copy of Managing AFS by Campbell, ISBN 0 13 802729 3. If you use transarc paths in lieu of SUSE paths the book is right on (ditto HTML docs). I suggest some caution with this book. It's mostly good but has some really bad glaring errors. e.

Re: [OpenAFS] CFP: AFS Kerberos Best Practices Workshop 2005

2005-03-23 Thread Esther Filderman
Only because, at the time you sent that, I hadn't kicked JHutz's behind yet. :-) e. On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 13:31:34 -0500, Rodney M Dyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a reason that this years AFS Best Practices Workshop isn't being advertised on the OpenAFS web site yet? Rodney

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