[OpenAFS] Phasing out as buildbot admin

2017-11-26 Thread Jason Edgecombe
Hi everyone, I want to let everyone  know that I'm phasing out as the buildbot admin. I haven't been doing much with it lately, and I'd rather hand it off to someone else that is more involved. Please direct all of your buildbot communication to Benjamin Kaduk and Michael

Re: [OpenAFS] getcwd() error for RHEL 7.4 kernel

2017-11-15 Thread Jason Edgecombe
​I'm seeing this on some CentOS 7.4 systems that don't have AFS installed at all. It tends to happen in SMB network folders.​ --- Jason Edgecombe | Linux Administrator UNC Charlotte | The William States Lee College

Re: [OpenAFS] mod_waklog question

2017-07-14 Thread Jason Edgecombe
use this because my AFS folders are granted via IP ACLs and the kerberos credentials are only used for accessing kerberized SMB shares. Sincerely, Jason --- Jason Edgecombe | Linux Administrator UNC Charlotte | The Willia

Re: [OpenAFS] mod_waklog question

2017-07-11 Thread Jason Edgecombe
d compare the "tokens" command output to make sure that are different. Jason --- Jason Edgecombe | Linux Administrator UNC Charlotte | The William States Lee College of Engineering 9201 University City Blvd. | Char

Re: [OpenAFS] mod_waklog question

2017-07-11 Thread Jason Edgecombe
T # allow k5start child processes (i.e. apache) to notify system that it's up NotifyAccess=all PrivateTmp=false [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target cut ------- Jason Edgecom

Re: [OpenAFS] mod_waklog question

2017-07-03 Thread Jason Edgecombe
se k5start and a local keytab: https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/kstart/k5start.html k5start is available in EPEL. I think there are debian packages as well. Jason ------- Jason Edgecombe | Linux Administrator UNC

Re: [OpenAFS] Procedure for changing database server IP addresses

2017-02-03 Thread Jason Edgecombe
On 01/17/2017 03:45 PM, Stephen Joyce wrote: I know the current best-practice for changing the IP addresses of AFS database servers is don't do it. But assuming that I want/need to change IPs and have available hardware, is the use of clone dbservers the preferred method? I can tolerate

[OpenAFS] Re: [OpenAFS-announce] fin

2015-09-26 Thread Jason Edgecombe
On 09/25/2015 12:01 AM, Daria Phoebe Brashear wrote: It's been two years, today, since one of the defining moments in my recent life. As I picked myself up from my toppled bicycle, some folks pulled up, and shortly I was speeding across the city. I couldn't see what was passing outside, but I

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS Foundation Businesss Plan From BPW 2015

2015-08-20 Thread Jason Edgecombe
On 08/19/2015 09:56 PM, Todd DeSantis wrote: 2. Promotion a.“Branding”: Logo, stationary/letterhead, business cards, standard slide template, standard presentation deck with notes, brochure b.Electronic: website v2.0, FaceBook, LinkedIn,

Re: [OpenAFS] kmod rpm versions?

2015-08-07 Thread Jason Edgecombe
that you can use pre-compiled modules with dkms, but you might as well compile your own kmod RPM's at that point. Jason --- Jason Edgecombe | Linux Administrator UNC Charlotte | The William States Lee College of Engineering 9201

Re: [OpenAFS] Encrypted connections by default in OpenAFS 1.8?

2015-02-27 Thread Jason Edgecombe
On 02/27/2015 03:26 PM, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: Hi all, The progress towards a 1.8 release is well underway, and it is time to consider what behavior changes are desired for the major release boundary. One change which has been proposed is to encrypt connections by default. There has long been

Re: [OpenAFS-devel] Re: [OpenAFS] Encrypted connections by default in OpenAFS 1.8?

2015-02-27 Thread Jason Edgecombe
On 02/27/2015 10:09 PM, Jeffrey Altman wrote: On 2/27/2015 9:51 PM, Jason Edgecombe wrote: ** file server option to force authenticated access to use encryption A file server cannot force authenticated access from a client to use encryption. The client chooses the property of the connection

Re: [OpenAFS] On desupporting Linux 2.4

2015-02-25 Thread Jason Edgecombe
On 02/25/2015 12:51 PM, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: Hi all, Linux 2.4 is getting long in the tooth, and it is becoming clear that attempting to continue to support it is a drain on the scarce OpenAFS development resources which could be better used to modernize the codebase and implement security and

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS and sudo

2015-01-20 Thread Jason Edgecombe
On 01/20/2015 03:46 PM, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: Hi, On Tue, 20 Jan 2015, Yvan Masson wrote: Hi, I'm currently preparing the installation of Debian 8 Jessie (the current almost stable) workstations in an OpenAFS environment. Users can log in with theirs AFS credentials. My problem is that if a

Re: [OpenAFS] Migrating existing data onto vice partition on the fly

2014-12-30 Thread Jason Edgecombe
On 12/30/2014 11:57 AM, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Dienstag 30 Dezember 2014, 17:33:44 schrieb Levente Peres: Why same server? An AFS setup usually consists of several servers, especially if you want to serve terabytes of data. Not to mention the needed kerberos server. Same server because I

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: RPMs for RHEL7?

2014-10-26 Thread Jason Edgecombe
On 10/25/2014 09:54 PM, Andrew Deason wrote: On Sat, 25 Oct 2014 11:44:09 -0400 Jason Edgecombe ja...@rampaginggeek.com wrote: Can anyone point me to a good source for OpenAFS RPMs for RHEL7/Centos7 x86_64? There aren't any; not that are public/official, anyway (unless you count SL7

[OpenAFS] RPMs for RHEL7?

2014-10-25 Thread Jason Edgecombe
Hi everyone, Can anyone point me to a good source for OpenAFS RPMs for RHEL7/Centos7 x86_64? I'm having trouble finding them. I've checked pkgs.org, rpmfind.net, atrpms.net, and rpmfusion. Thanks, Jason ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list

Re: [OpenAFS] Linux OpenAFS EncFS?

2014-02-17 Thread Jason Edgecombe
On 02/17/2014 08:05 AM, Lars Schimmer wrote: Hi! Does anyone using EncFS in combination with OpenAFS? Currently I can change into the directory, but gets a permission denied if I try to create files/directory. Anyone here tried already? Or does anyone has another idea on howto encrypt a

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Minimal toy OpenAFS install?

2014-02-14 Thread Jason Edgecombe
On 02/14/2014 01:59 AM, Andrew Deason wrote: On Thu, 13 Feb 2014 19:59:28 -0800 fork forkandw...@gmail.com wrote: I hate to ask a question like this, but ... is there a guide to the most minimal OpenAFS install possible, for a learning exercise? Pretty much any setup guide you find will be

Re: [OpenAFS] Extract files from /vicepa

2014-01-17 Thread Jason Edgecombe
On 01/17/2014 12:40 PM, Germán Ferrari wrote: On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 1:39 PM, Stephan Wiesand stephan.wies...@desy.dewrote: On 2014-01-17, at 15:41, Germán Ferrari german.ferr...@gmail.com wrote: El ene 17, 2014 9:43 AM, Harald Barth h...@kth.se escribió: If I understood correctly, the

Re: [OpenAFS] ZFS-on-Linux on production fileservers?

2013-10-05 Thread Jason Edgecombe
On 10/05/2013 04:13 PM, Coy Hile wrote: Along the same lines, is anybody using any of the Illumos distributions? Personally, I'm working on rolling my own SmartOS build that has the AFS kernel module installed so that VMs could be AFS fileservers or clients. (Correct me if I'm wrong, but the

[OpenAFS] Re: [OpenAFS release-team] release-team jabber meeting August the 28th

2013-09-14 Thread Jason Edgecombe
On 09/11/2013 10:00 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: Jason Edgecombe ja...@rampaginggeek.com writes: On 09/10/2013 10:58 AM, Andrew Deason wrote: On Tue, 10 Sep 2013 10:43:29 -0400 Derek Atkins warl...@mit.edu wrote: A build slave can be behind a NAT but if so it must be administered by someone

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Shared admin access for buildbot master

2013-09-10 Thread Jason Edgecombe
On 09/10/2013 01:01 PM, Andrew Deason wrote: On 9/9/2013 9:18 PM, Jason Edgecombe wrote: I would like to discuss the topic of sharing admin access and duties with others. What would the group like to see happen? Currently, I am the admin for the buildbot master (and the debian-i386 slave

[OpenAFS] Need a RHEL5 buildslave machine

2013-07-29 Thread Jason Edgecombe
Hi everyone, I've been notified that the machine that hosts our buildslave for RHEL5 x86_64 is being decommissioned at the end of August. Without a RHEL5 builder, RHEL5 support may suffer and problems on RHEL5 may not be found as quickly. To host a RHEL5 buildslave, the following is needed:

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS 1.6.5 .src.rpm on RHEL 5.x Fails with cpio: MD5 sum mismatch

2013-07-25 Thread Jason Edgecombe
On 07/25/2013 07:47 AM, Brunckhorst, Ralf wrote: Hi, Similar issue with the src.rpm of the new version 1.6.5 like 1.6.2 Is it possible to fix this by providing a compatible src.rpm 1.6.5 for RHEL5? - Ralf Run rpm -i --nomd5 openafs-1.6.5.src.rpm to install it. RHEL5 doesn't

[OpenAFS] Vagrant config and Puppet modules for Kerberos and OpenAFS

2013-06-10 Thread Jason Edgecombe
Hi everyone, I wrote a couple of puppet modules and a vagrant config for trying out OpenAFS. I made this for a presentation that I gave at the SouthEast LinuxFest 2013 in Charlotte, NC. The code is rough and needs improvement, but it does work. The vagrant setup is suitable for anyone

[OpenAFS] Intro to OpenAFS presentation in Charlotte, NC USA on June 9

2013-05-23 Thread Jason Edgecombe
Just a reminder. I'm giving a one hour presentation titled Introduction to OpenAFS in Charlotte, NC USA on June 9. This part of the SouthEast LinuxFest conference. http://www.southeastlinuxfest.org/ There is free option for registration. Jason

[OpenAFS] Conference Presentation on OpenAFS

2013-04-23 Thread Jason Edgecombe
Hi everyone, I've been accepted to present at SouthEast Linux Fest June 7-9 in Charlotte, NC USA. My presentation is titled Introduction to OpenAFS. I plan to give a 45 minute intro and mini how-to. I'll draw similarities to other cloud technologies. I wanted to ask if anyone has any tips.

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: busy .backup volumes

2013-04-20 Thread Jason Edgecombe
Try vos unlock 1953047510 On 04/19/2013 08:51 PM, Kristen J. Webb wrote: I was able to find a newer version of vos on a new system: # vos --version openafs 1.6.2.1 I reported bos --version (1.4.14), since I figured it would represent the version of the volserver ;) So I tried: # vos

[OpenAFS] Guide to upgrading from 1.4 to 1.6?

2013-03-16 Thread Jason Edgecombe
Hi everyone, Are there any guidelines for upgrading from 1.4 to 1.6 on the backend servers? How should I change the options that I start the file servers with? Jason ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org

Re: [OpenAFS] Change the IP of a Cell server

2013-02-16 Thread Jason Edgecombe
No, the IP change does not change which host is the lowest IP address. Thanks for the guidance. On 02/14/2013 12:39 PM, Jeffrey Altman wrote: Jason, On the client side you can push out new CellServDB files twice: 1. before the move add the new addresses and do not remove the old ones.

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: bos blockscanner

2013-01-28 Thread Jason Edgecombe
On 01/28/2013 10:47 AM, chas williams - CONTRACTOR wrote: On Sat, 26 Jan 2013 09:42:23 -0500 Jason Edgecombe ja...@rampaginggeek.com wrote: Should the blockscanner feature be removed? it should certainly be considered for removal from 1.7. it can stick around in 1.6 since removing

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: bos blockscanner

2013-01-26 Thread Jason Edgecombe
On 01/26/2013 04:50 AM, Hartmut Reuter wrote: When OpenAFS started in 2000 I pushed a lot of extensions into it to make it easier to maintain MR-AFS. I think at that time we already were the last site to use it. The next years the source code of MR-AFS could be reduced to the very specific parts

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: bos blockscanner

2013-01-26 Thread Jason Edgecombe
On 01/26/2013 12:06 PM, Hartmut Reuter wrote: Jason Edgecombe wrote: On 01/26/2013 04:50 AM, Hartmut Reuter wrote: When OpenAFS started in 2000 I pushed a lot of extensions into it to make it easier to maintain MR-AFS. I think at that time we already were the last site to use it. The next

Re: [OpenAFS] Creating a partial sandbox of the production Cell krb5 realm

2012-11-12 Thread Jason Edgecombe
On 11/11/2012 07:08 PM, Jeffrey Altman wrote: On 11/11/2012 6:11 PM, Jason Edgecombe wrote: The same name is wanted to avoid tweaking the account generation scripts. The way to avoid tweaking the scripts is to never hard code cell or realm names in the scripts. These values should either

[OpenAFS] Creating a partial sandbox of the production Cell krb5 realm

2012-11-11 Thread Jason Edgecombe
Hi everyone, We're working on migrating our account creation process and oracle server from Solaris 9 (Oracle 9) to RHEL5 (Oracle 11). To do more testing, I have been asked to create a new AFS cell and krb5 realm that is a sandbox of production, including having the same realm/cell names as

Re: [OpenAFS] the future

2012-09-29 Thread Jason Edgecombe
On 09/28/2012 11:33 PM, Troy Benjegerdes wrote: If we dust off some old AFS code and paint up with YFS, TFS, and WTFS (What The Foo is this File Stuff) logos, and have ourselves a nice horserace all the spreadsheet guys can take bets on, what might happen? As I understand, YFS, Inc. is taking

Re: [OpenAFS] replacement for depot?

2012-09-27 Thread Jason Edgecombe
On 09/27/2012 11:49 AM, Douglas E. Engert wrote: On 9/26/2012 5:20 PM, Jason Edgecombe wrote: Hi everyone, I'm using a program called depot, which I think used to be included with IBM/Transarc AFS. I'm planning to migrated from RHEL5 with cfengine to RHEL6 with puppet. I use depot

[OpenAFS] replacement for depot?

2012-09-26 Thread Jason Edgecombe
Hi everyone, I'm using a program called depot, which I think used to be included with IBM/Transarc AFS. I'm planning to migrated from RHEL5 with cfengine to RHEL6 with puppet. I use depot to manage many folders of symlinks. What would you recommend as a replacement to depot? FYI, the

Re: [OpenAFS] replacement for depot?

2012-09-26 Thread Jason Edgecombe
On 09/26/2012 06:42 PM, Andy Cobaugh wrote: On 2012-09-26 at 18:20, Jason Edgecombe ( ja...@rampaginggeek.com ) said: Hi everyone, I'm using a program called depot, which I think used to be included with IBM/Transarc AFS. I'm planning to migrated from RHEL5 with cfengine to RHEL6 with puppet

Re: [OpenAFS] buildbot and packages

2012-09-13 Thread Jason Edgecombe
Are there any objections to doing this for non-windows platforms? It could be a nightly build. On 09/13/2012 12:35 PM, Derrick Brashear wrote: we talked about doing it for releases; this would be a generalized case of it possibly, but i can see it becoming a support nightmare. you're running

Re: [OpenAFS] Best practice for cleaning up PTS groups after users are deleted

2012-07-26 Thread Jason Edgecombe
On 07/26/2012 06:10 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: Jeffrey Altman jalt...@secure-endpoints.com writes: A security best practice is to never delete users and groups because you don't know what ACLs they might be listed on. The same is true for Kerberos principal names. You can disable the issuance

Re: [OpenAFS] Best practice for cleaning up PTS groups after users are deleted

2012-07-26 Thread Jason Edgecombe
On 07/26/2012 06:53 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: Jason Edgecombe ja...@rampaginggeek.com writes: We delete users and run fs cleanacl. I'm trying to figure out how to properly clean up the groups. What criteria do other sites use for removing groups. I know about orphaned gruops, but I'm looking

Re: Fwd: [OpenAFS] Manually Creating Cross Realm Users

2012-06-17 Thread Jason Edgecombe
like this to OpenAFS and all I could find were a couple of wiki pages[1,2], but neither of them mention documentation like this. Thanks, Jayen [1] http://wiki.openafs.org/AFSLore/afslore/tinysimpletasks/ [2] http://wiki.openafs.org/AFSLore/contrib/ On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 11:16 PM, Jason Edgecombe

Re: Fwd: [OpenAFS] Manually Creating Cross Realm Users

2012-06-16 Thread Jason Edgecombe
dropped my previous reply. On Thu, 14 Jun 2012, Jason Edgecombe wrote: I don't think so. It's documented in the krb.conf man page, though. On 06/14/2012 07:16 AM, Jayen Ashar wrote: Yes, that works wonderfully! Thanks for that. Is this mentioned in the Admin Guide somewhere? I couldn't find

Re: [OpenAFS] Manually Creating Cross Realm Users

2012-06-14 Thread Jason Edgecombe
I don't think so. It's documented in the krb.conf man page, though. On 06/14/2012 07:16 AM, Jayen Ashar wrote: Yes, that works wonderfully! Thanks for that. Is this mentioned in the Admin Guide somewhere? I couldn't find it. Thanks, Jayen On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 9:04 PM, Simon Wilkinson

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Feature wish: remove partition while fileserver keeps on running

2012-04-07 Thread Jason Edgecombe
On 03/01/2012 08:31 PM, Jason Edgecombe wrote: Works for me. On 02/29/2012 11:49 PM, Derrick Brashear wrote: Given we have AlwaysAttach, NeverAttach would seem to be the obvious opposite. On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 8:13 PM, Andrew Deasonadea...@sinenomine.net wrote: On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:18:38

Re: [OpenAFS] Feature wish: remove partition while fileserver keeps on running

2012-04-07 Thread Jason Edgecombe
On 04/07/2012 11:10 AM, Simon Wilkinson wrote: On 7 Apr 2012, at 15:50, Jason Edgecombe wrote: Gerrit commit http://gerrit.openafs.org/7108 includes the previously discussed /vicepXX/NeverAttach flag. The commit has been merged into the master branch. I can't close ticket 130561. Would

Re: [OpenAFS] PTS database dump and restore?

2012-03-18 Thread Jason Edgecombe
On 03/17/2012 09:31 PM, Jaap Winius wrote: Quoting Brandon Allbery allber...@gmail.com: pt_util? Ah! I missed that. It's a pity, though, that the dump file format doesn't include supergroup information. Check the output. It might include it. When I used pt_util, it has all of my groups,

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Feature wish: remove partition while fileserver keeps on running

2012-03-01 Thread Jason Edgecombe
Works for me. On 02/29/2012 11:49 PM, Derrick Brashear wrote: Given we have AlwaysAttach, NeverAttach would seem to be the obvious opposite. On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 8:13 PM, Andrew Deasonadea...@sinenomine.net wrote: On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:18:38 -0500 Jason Edgecombeja...@rampaginggeek.com

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Feature wish: remove partition while fileserver keeps on running

2012-02-27 Thread Jason Edgecombe
On 02/27/2012 12:10 PM, Andrew Deason wrote: On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 17:00:31 +0100 Lars Schimmerl.schim...@cgv.tugraz.at wrote: (IMHO DAFS is only for volumes, not partitions, or?) Yes, but as Andy mentions, a restart with DAFS shouldn't be very noticeable (whether that is actually true depends

Re: [OpenAFS] Getting all members of all groups

2012-02-13 Thread Jason Edgecombe
On 02/12/2012 02:41 PM, Jeffrey Altman wrote: There is not one. The easiest thing to do would be to write a patch for a -numeric option that would list entries by number and not perform the number to name translation before output. On 2/12/2012 12:23 PM, Jason Edgecombe wrote: Hi everyone, I

[OpenAFS] Getting all members of all groups

2012-02-12 Thread Jason Edgecombe
Hi everyone, I need a list of the members of all of my groups. I know that pts listentries -groups gives me the groups and that pts membership --expandgroups will give me group membership, but I have groups with spaces and possibly other shell metacharacters. Does pts have something like

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: OpenAFS 1.6.0 with Microsoft Active Directory 2008 - Questions about DES

2012-01-10 Thread Jason Edgecombe
Would you dump that into the bug tracker or the wiki for future reference? Updating the docs would be ideal ;) Thanks, Jason On 01/10/2012 11:39 AM, Jeff White wrote: I decided to scrap my Windows box and start over again. I was able to get it work this time but I don't know what was

Re: [OpenAFS] Happy Holidays -- Another year in the life of OpenAFS

2011-12-23 Thread Jason Edgecombe
do these tools work with docbook? On 12/23/2011 12:51 AM, Ted Creedon wrote: Its not the docs content, just the formatting and ease of use. On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 8:39 PM, Jeffrey Altman jalt...@secure-endpoints.com wrote: On 12/22/2011 8:54 PM, David Boyes wrote: 1. Recreated the IBM

Re: [OpenAFS] Future of maemo port?

2011-12-23 Thread Jason Edgecombe
I don't think that I'll be able to help much with that. On 12/23/2011 12:55 AM, Ted Creedon wrote: AFS as an add on to he Dllink would suit me fine and allow shutting down 3 servers If a larger capacity circuit board is needed, that's not a a problm. maybe I'll have time after Jan 1. tedc

Re: [OpenAFS] Future of maemo port?

2011-12-23 Thread Jason Edgecombe
The hardest part will likely be getting a development environment installed. There might be a forum or web site to support hacking on the Dlink. you can also get help from the debian-arm email list: http://lists.debian.org/debian-arm/ On 12/23/2011 11:16 AM, Ted Creedon wrote: Just another

Re: [OpenAFS] Happy Holidays -- Another year in the life of OpenAFS

2011-12-22 Thread Jason Edgecombe
On 12/22/2011 11:47 AM, Ted Creedon wrote: A documentation week would be more like it. My private docs stopped development some years ago using LaTex: 1. Recreated the IBM format including hyperlinks, appendix, permuted index, etc 2. Devised a customizable Quick Start Guide specific to each OS

Re: [OpenAFS] Future of maemo port?

2011-12-22 Thread Jason Edgecombe
Hi Ted, Other ARM devices, like the D-Link, that run Linux have a good chance to run OpenAFS. debian-arm does exist. I'm just wanted to formally deprecate the maemo code, which has been unmaintained for a while. On 12/22/2011 01:02 PM, Ted Creedon wrote: The Dlink DNS-320 NAS has an 800 MHz

Re: [OpenAFS] Happy Holidays -- Another year in the life of OpenAFS

2011-12-22 Thread Jason Edgecombe
On 12/22/2011 08:54 PM, David Boyes wrote: 1. Recreated the IBM format including hyperlinks, appendix, permuted index, Etc I have the original doc tools used to create the IBM docs, and the ability to produce and translate the .boo files. These tools can automagically do the above if asked.

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS guide

2011-12-17 Thread Jason Edgecombe
It may help to give a better example. I work at a university, and each of the students in our college (a sub-unit of the university) has a home directory in AFS. All user files are stored there, and we do not sync. All backups are handled using the AFS backup software, to back up to tape. Most

Re: [OpenAFS] Balancing usecnts of RO volumes

2011-12-17 Thread Jason Edgecombe
On 12/17/2011 09:41 PM, Garance A Drosihn wrote: Hello. A minor question here. I was curious if there was some way to encourage clients to load- balance their references across multiple RO volumes. I have a volume which is fairly large (for us), and is often referenced about 10,000 times an

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS guide

2011-12-16 Thread Jason Edgecombe
On 12/15/2011 11:22 PM, Ryan Nix wrote: Hi All, Is there any chance that someone could post a step-by-step guide on something like Howtoforge.com? I'm really intrigued by AFS and would like to use it, but it seems like it might be a lot of work to get going and in the end AFS might not be the

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Afs User volume servers in VM's

2011-10-26 Thread Jason Edgecombe
On 10/26/2011 11:57 AM, Andrew Deason wrote: On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 17:26:55 +0200 Stephan Wiesandstephan.wies...@desy.de wrote: Running multiple fileservers on different ports on the same system would be even more efficient. Is this possible or could be implemented (in theory)? In theory, of

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Afs User volume servers in VM's

2011-10-26 Thread Jason Edgecombe
On 10/26/2011 02:48 PM, Jason Edgecombe wrote: On 10/26/2011 11:57 AM, Andrew Deason wrote: On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 17:26:55 +0200 Stephan Wiesandstephan.wies...@desy.de wrote: Running multiple fileservers on different ports on the same system would be even more efficient. Is this possible

Re: [OpenAFS] cpu affinity( was: Afs User volume servers in VM's)

2011-10-26 Thread Jason Edgecombe
On 10/26/2011 01:03 PM, Andrew Deason wrote: On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 12:45:07 -0400 Jeffrey Altmanjalt...@secure-endpoints.com wrote: I wonder why 128 threads (or 256 with 1.6) can't make use of more than four cores though? Resource contention between threads executing on separate sockets is

Re: [OpenAFS] 1.4.x quorum election process?

2011-10-26 Thread Jason Edgecombe
On 10/26/2011 02:23 PM, Jeff Blaine wrote: Have you considered making the lowest server a clone? Clones are like other database servers, except that they can never be elected as a sync site. The (default) election winner then would be the next closest. YES! Thank you! I knew there was

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: 1.4.14 with 2.6.18-274.3.1.el5?

2011-09-14 Thread Jason Edgecombe
On 09/14/2011 02:41 PM, Jeff Blaine wrote: On 9/13/2011 11:48 PM, Andrew Deason wrote: On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 21:07:04 -0400 Jeff Blainejbla...@kickflop.net wrote: -bash-3.2# time /afs/rcf/user/jblaine/afs-exercise.sh find: WARNING: Hard link count is wrong for .: this may be a bug in your

Re: [OpenAFS] Create a group

2011-09-10 Thread Jason Edgecombe
On 09/09/2011 05:45 PM, jm130794 wrote: Hello, I'm a simple afs user and I want to create a group. If I try : # pts creategroup user1:mygroup that works fine... but I use cross realm. I open a session with user1@myrealm : # fs listacl /afs/mycell/user1 ... system:administrators rlidwka

Re: [OpenAFS] improving cache partition performance

2011-08-29 Thread Jason Edgecombe
Thanks Chris, Both of my servers have 16GB of RAM, and yes, I'm serving PHP content. I'm not sure if I can add more spindles in these boxes with my RAID controller. (1U Dell PowerEdge R210 with H200 RAID card.) I disabled APC cache because of a segfault every ~5000 hits, which happened to

[OpenAFS] improving cache partition performance

2011-08-28 Thread Jason Edgecombe
hi everyone, I'm looking at some performance problems on our web servers, and I think that hard drive performance is a bottleneck. All filesystems are on a RAID0 disk array with two 7200RPM disks (no battery-backed cache). The cache is on a dedicated ext3 partition. At some points, my await

[OpenAFS] OpenAFS Newsletter, Volume 3, Issue 7, July 2011

2011-07-27 Thread Jason Edgecombe
The July 2011 OpenAFS newsletter is now available at http://www.openafs.org/newsletter/newsletter-2011-07-volume003-issue07.html Thanks, Jason ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org

[OpenAFS] Taking a break from the OpenAFS newsletter

2011-07-27 Thread Jason Edgecombe
Hi everyone, The observant among you might have noticed a slow creeping delay in the publish dates of the newsletters. This month's newsletter came quite late, mainly because of me. After 27 issues, I'm going to take a break from editing and publishing the newsletters for a while, maybe

Re: [OpenAFS] Taking a break from the OpenAFS newsletter

2011-07-27 Thread Jason Edgecombe
On 07/27/2011 06:40 PM, Jeffrey Altman wrote: On 7/27/2011 6:36 PM, Jason Edgecombe wrote: Hi everyone, The observant among you might have noticed a slow creeping delay in the publish dates of the newsletters. This month's newsletter came quite late, mainly because of me. After 27 issues, I'm

Re: [OpenAFS] /usr/sbin/backup

2011-07-04 Thread Jason Edgecombe
On 07/04/2011 10:14 AM, Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR) wrote: In messagecad3fbmwn1fpxwxxc+32p02jfqyxxergszzz2g4gzxq0hmuh...@mail.gmail.com,Ken Dreyer writes: The /usr/sbin/backup binary in OpenAFS conflicts with a binary of the same name in Coda. Before RPM Fusion renames the binary (eg.

Re: [OpenAFS] /usr/sbin/backup

2011-07-02 Thread Jason Edgecombe
On 07/02/2011 02:50 PM, Ken Dreyer wrote: On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 10:20 PM, Russ Allberyr...@stanford.edu wrote: The AFS command name is ridiculously generic and should really be changed, although of course that's annoying for the AFS community. Any consensus on a new binary name?

[OpenAFS] OpenAFS Newsletter, Volume 3, Issue 6, June 2011

2011-06-19 Thread Jason Edgecombe
The June 2011 OpenAFS newsletter is now available at http://www.openafs.org/newsletter/newsletter-2011-06-volume003-issue06.html. Thanks, Jason ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org

[OpenAFS] Re: Help: Can OpenSSH get OpenAFS token after the client login?

2011-06-11 Thread Jason Edgecombe
On 06/11/2011 08:31 AM, Lee Eric wrote: Hi, The systems are using Fedora 14 and the systems can log in each other by using Kerberos. But it seems after OpenSSH login the client side cannot get the OpenAFS token. So is there any way to let the client side get the OpenAFS token after login? Just

Re: [OpenAFS] acl issue

2011-06-07 Thread Jason Edgecombe
On 06/07/2011 07:51 PM, Jason Edgecombe wrote: On 06/07/2011 09:53 AM, Fabien COMBERNOUS wrote: For archive my kerberol realm and my cell name are different. So it is needed to add in the server setup a file krb.conf with the kerberol realm in it. Thank you phalenor. Have you put your

[OpenAFS] OpenAFS Newsletter, Volume 3, Issue 5, May 2011

2011-05-19 Thread Jason Edgecombe
The May 2011 OpenAFS newsletter is now available at http://www.openafs.org/newsletter/newsletter-2011-05-volume003-issue05.html. Thanks, Jason ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org

Re: [OpenAFS] callback breaks (was Re: Tuning the -daemons.)

2011-04-18 Thread Jason Edgecombe
On 04/18/2011 08:36 AM, Simon Wilkinson wrote: On 18 Apr 2011, at 12:33, Jan Johansson wrote: Some time ago (in thread https://lists.openafs.org/pipermail/openafs-info/2011-February/035407.html) I asked about the client -daemons flag. Reviewing your original post, it has occurred to me that

[OpenAFS] OpenAFS Newsletter, Volume 3, Issue 4, April 2011

2011-04-17 Thread Jason Edgecombe
The April 2011 OpenAFS newsletter is now available at http://www.openafs.org/newsletter/newsletter-2011-04-volume003-issue04.html. Thanks, Jason ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org

Re: [OpenAFS] Recovery Tools

2011-04-17 Thread Jason Edgecombe
On 04/17/2011 01:24 AM, Meisam Mohammadkhani wrote: Hi, There is ordinary recovery tools in market that is useful when our data corrupt or loose, but they support ordinary file systems. My question is for any reason, if our data was corrupted under OpenAFS, is there any recovery tools for

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: When to publish security advisories?

2011-04-15 Thread Jason Edgecombe
On 04/15/2011 04:40 PM, Andrew Deason wrote: On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 18:53:08 +0100 Simon Wilkinsons...@inf.ed.ac.uk wrote: Making security releases is expensive and time consuming - it removes developer effort from all of the other things that we want to get done, and delays the arrival of

Re: [OpenAFS] RHEL/OpenAFS as VMware ESXi guest

2011-04-03 Thread Jason Edgecombe
On 04/03/2011 06:31 PM, Thomas Smith wrote: On Apr 3, 2011, at 15:18, Russ Allberyr...@stanford.edu wrote: Thomas Smiththeitsm...@gmail.com writes: I'm currently running RHEL 5 Xen and am considering switching to VMware ESXi 4. Has anyone on the list used these together and, if so, were

Re: [OpenAFS] Multiple logins

2011-03-20 Thread Jason Edgecombe
On 03/20/2011 08:19 AM, Coy Hile wrote: On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Jaap Winiusjwin...@umrk.nl wrote: Quoting Dirk Heinrichsdirk.heinri...@altum.de: ... Is it possible to prevent users from logging in more than once ... No, you can't. ... Couldn't you potentially write a PAM module to

Re: [OpenAFS] forcing and benchmarking the cache scan

2011-03-18 Thread Jason Edgecombe
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[OpenAFS] OpenAFS Newsletter, Volume 3, Issue 3, March 2011

2011-03-17 Thread Jason Edgecombe
The March 2011 OpenAFS newsletter is now available at http://www.openafs.org/newsletter/newsletter-2011-03-volume003-issue03.html. Thanks, Jason ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org

Re: [OpenAFS] Documenting the recommended fileserver options

2011-02-26 Thread Jason Edgecombe
On 02/26/2011 06:53 PM, Derrick Brashear wrote: On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 9:08 PM, Jason Edgecombe ja...@rampaginggeek.com wrote: On 02/24/2011 08:05 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: Jason Edgecombeja...@rampaginggeek.comwrites: Jonathan Nilsson pointed out to me that the recommended file server

Re: [OpenAFS] Documenting the recommended fileserver options

2011-02-25 Thread Jason Edgecombe
On 02/24/2011 08:05 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: Jason Edgecombeja...@rampaginggeek.com writes: Jonathan Nilsson pointed out to me that the recommended file server options are not documented anywhere. As I recall, I pestered Jeff Derrick at the 2008 workshop, and my current settings came from that

[OpenAFS] Documenting the recommended fileserver options

2011-02-24 Thread Jason Edgecombe
Hi everyone, Jonathan Nilsson pointed out to me that the recommended file server options are not documented anywhere. As I recall, I pestered Jeff Derrick at the 2008 workshop, and my current settings came from that and possibly some private conversations with Jeff Derrick. Are there any

[OpenAFS] Re: [OpenAFS-announce] OpenAFS Security Advisory 2011-001

2011-02-23 Thread Jason Edgecombe
Is 1.6pre2 vulnerable? On 02/23/2011 12:25 PM, Derrick J Brashear wrote: A signed version of this advisory is not yet available due to factors beyond our control. When possible a signature from the OpenAFS security officer will be added and the advisory replaced on the OpenAFS web site.

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: [OpenAFS-announce] OpenAFS Security Advisory 2011-001

2011-02-23 Thread Jason Edgecombe
On 02/23/2011 08:30 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: Jason Edgecombeja...@rampaginggeek.com writes: Is 1.6pre2 vulnerable? No, this was fixed in 1.5.75, so was fixed in all the 1.6 pre-release candidates. ok, thanks. I suspected that was the case, but wanted to verify that. Jason

[OpenAFS] OpenAFS Newsletter, Volume 3, Issue 2, February 2011

2011-02-16 Thread Jason Edgecombe
The February 2011 OpenAFS newsletter is now available at http://www.openafs.org/newsletter/newsletter-2011-02-volume003-issue02.html. Thanks, Jason ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org

Re: [OpenAFS] calculating memory

2011-01-28 Thread Jason Edgecombe
On 01/28/2011 03:24 PM, Gary Gatling wrote: Hello, I am in charge of several afs servers in our college. Right now there are 5 afs servers running on 5 SPARC based servers. We are ditching Solaris since it sucks so bad and are going to move to Linux VM's running inside of VMware. I was

Re: [OpenAFS] resurrecting dead server

2011-01-16 Thread Jason Edgecombe
On 01/15/2011 01:05 PM, Ted Creedon wrote: my R/W server died but /vicepa and /vicepb were saved on their raid drives. this server also ran the krb5kdc... there are 2 other RO servers still OK but 2 out of 20 volumes are not up to date. both were running upclient etc the data on the RO servers

Re: [OpenAFS] resurrecting dead server

2011-01-16 Thread Jason Edgecombe
I recommend a reinstall, then copy /usr/afs/etc from another server to copy the KeyFile, CellServ, etc. Jason On 01/16/2011 01:48 PM, Ted Creedon wrote: How about moving the /usr/afs directories from a known good server to the RW server and doing the same? ted On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 7:10

[OpenAFS] OpenAFS Newsletter, Volume 2, Issue 12, December 2010

2010-12-18 Thread Jason Edgecombe
The December 2010 OpenAFS newsletter is now available at http://www.openafs.org/newsletter/newsletter-2010-12-volume002-issue12.html Happy Holidays Thanks, Jason ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Proposed changes for server log rotation

2010-12-04 Thread Jason Edgecombe
On 12/04/2010 10:38 AM, Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR) wrote: In message20101203155612.e7a694f5.adea...@sinenomine.net,Andrew Deason writes: On Fri, 3 Dec 2010 13:00:37 -0500 chas williams - CONTRACTORc...@cmf.nrl.navy.mil wrote: On Fri, 3 Dec 2010 10:53:08 -0600 Andrew

Re: [OpenAFS] New OpenAFS website proposal.

2010-11-26 Thread Jason Edgecombe
we ever get a lot of traffic? Performance looks perfectly fine to me. One challenge is that we don't have a site manager. Here are the authors of commits to the web site since 2009-01-01 Derrick Brashear (58) Jason Edgecombe (21) Jeffrey Altman (16) Russ Allbery (2) Simon Wilkinson (1

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