[OpenAFS] OpenAFS 1.6.10pre1 testing results

2014-09-25 Thread Ken Dreyer
Hi folks, It looks like 1.6.10 final is going to drop soon, but I just wanted to report that we've been running 1.6.10pre1 at USGS for a couple weeks and haven't seen issues. We're running it on our production VLDB servers and several clients. It is running on our test cell's fileserver fine, and

Re: [OpenAFS] Two realms and one cell

2014-07-09 Thread Ken Dreyer
On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 5:59 AM, Harald Barth h...@kth.se wrote: A little question. We have one AFS cell myrealm.fr and a Kerberos realm myrealm.fr. We must use our AFS cell with a another realm named otherrealm.fr. There is no trusted relations between myrealm.fr and otherrealm.fr. Is it

Re: [OpenAFS] Recent Fedora kmod issues

2014-06-05 Thread Ken Dreyer
On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 11:23 AM, Jon Stanley jonstan...@gmail.com wrote: A simple change to have those lines reference /usr/sbin/depmod worked. I think that the logic probably needs to be conditionalized such that on RHEL6 and below, we use /sbin/depmod, and Fedora =17 and RHEL =7 we use

[OpenAFS] Re: [OpenAFS-announce] Second OpenAFS 1.6.8 release candidate available

2014-04-30 Thread Ken Dreyer
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 12:01 PM, Stephan Wiesand stephan.wies...@desy.de wrote: The OpenAFS 1.6 Release Team announces that the second 1.6.8 release candidate 1.6.8pre2 has been tagged in the OpenAFS source repository, available at: git://git.openafs.org/openafs.git as tag:

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: OpenAFS client crashes on RHEL 5.10 and RHEL 6.5

2014-03-12 Thread Ken Dreyer
I've opened Case #01053566 with Red Hat today for USGS. - Ken On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 11:12 AM, Renata Maria Dart ren...@slac.stanford.edu wrote: Hi Jeffmakes sense...we'll add more to our 2 cents with them. Thanks, Renata On Wed, 12 Mar 2014, Jeffrey Altman wrote: As with any

Re: [OpenAFS] Minimal toy OpenAFS install?

2014-02-14 Thread Ken Dreyer
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 8:59 PM, fork forkandw...@gmail.com wrote: I figure I would install Kerberos and OpenAFS, but I am hoping to avoid BIND if I can. I thought I would install the Kerberos key server on the same machine as OpenAFS, since it is a toy system anyway. By the way, if you're

Re: [OpenAFS] Apache and Openafs

2013-12-26 Thread Ken Dreyer
On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 7:48 AM, GALAMBOS Daniel dan...@dancsa.hu wrote: When the same file hosted on the local filesystem the avg response time decreased from 1800 ms to 50 ms and there are almost no load. I remember beating my head against this problem as well. How many CPU cores are in your

Re: [OpenAFS] Is an RPM of k5start available for RHEL 6?

2013-12-10 Thread Ken Dreyer
Hi Brian, EPEL ships k5start as part of the kstart package. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/repoview/kstart.html At my workplace we use this package for maintaining AFS tokens for Apache. Feel free to file any bugs in Red Hat's bugzilla

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Livesys command missing in rpm openafs-client

2013-10-29 Thread Ken Dreyer
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 4:52 PM, Andrew Deason adea...@sinenomine.net wrote: The RPMs don't package the livesys command. I don't know why, but it looks like they've been like that for a long time, and the packaging does do that deliberately. Perhaps it should be included, but I'll let someone

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

2013-10-06 Thread Ken Dreyer
On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 12:36 AM, Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinri...@altum.de wrote: Am Samstag 05 Oktober 2013, 18:16:54 schrieb Ken Dreyer: The reason I have advocated against ZFS-on-Linux at work for our fileservers is that out-of-tree modules on Linux are such a hassle. Hmm, not on Debian

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

2013-10-05 Thread Ken Dreyer
On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 8:31 AM, Jeff Blaine jbla...@kickflop.net wrote: * Are you using ZFS-on-Linux in production for file servers? * If not, and you looked into it, what stopped you? The reason I have advocated against ZFS-on-Linux at work for our fileservers is that out-of-tree modules on

Re: [OpenAFS] Naming of backup and up commands

2013-09-22 Thread Ken Dreyer
On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 6:51 PM, Russ Allbery r...@stanford.edu wrote: In the Debian packaging for OpenAFS, I've renamed the up command to afs-up for years now. There's now also a conflict with the backup command (which is a horrible name for a command), and I'm rather tempted to do the same

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Heimdal KDC bug mentioned in rekeying document

2013-08-06 Thread Ken Dreyer
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 4:12 PM, Jeffrey Altman jalt...@secure-endpoints.com wrote: Secure Endpoints has pushed fixes to https://github.com/heimdal/heimdal for both the 'master' (aka pre-1.6) and 'heimdal-1-5-branch' branches. I have a question about the exact patches that are necessary. There

Re: [OpenAFS] Default for encryption of file transfers

2013-07-27 Thread Ken Dreyer
On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 9:12 AM, Jeffrey Altman jalt...@your-file-system.com wrote: On 7/27/2013 4:04 AM, Michael Laß wrote: I heard from a user about an inconsistency between documentation and the actual behavior of the openafs client (1.6.5): The manpage for fs setcrypt states: The default

Re: [OpenAFS] An Example of OpenAFS in Production

2013-06-14 Thread Ken Dreyer
Hi Ken, That's great! Thanks for sharing. So with AUFS, are you specifying an RO branch by pointing to a location in /afs directly? And then are you periodically sync'ing the AUFS RW branch file(s) back into AFS? - Ken On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 9:54 PM, Ken Elkabany k...@picloud.com wrote: Hi

[OpenAFS] convertROtoRW when the RW is active

2013-03-07 Thread Ken Dreyer
There's a convertROtoRW change up for review that Jeff encouraged me to take to the mailing list. http://gerrit.openafs.org/8014 Currently, convertROtoRW checks the VLDB to see if an RW already exists, and if it does, it prompts the user to continue. The -force flag answers yes to this prompt.

Re: [OpenAFS] Development status of mod_waklog and filedrawers

2013-02-05 Thread Ken Dreyer
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 4:51 AM, Stephen Quinney step...@jadevine.org.uk wrote: We use mod_waklog quite a bit in the School of Informatics and would be willing to put some effort into keeping it working. I don't currently have any access to the project though so cannot even merge in the set of

Re: [OpenAFS] Graphical file managers get stuck

2012-12-10 Thread Ken Dreyer
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 3:12 PM, jukka.tuomi...@finndesign.fi wrote: What do you mean by publishing DNS SRV records? The server has a FQDN but do you mean something else? If you can get a Wireshark trace of DNS activity while Nautilus is frozen, that will help us understand if Nautilus is

Re: [OpenAFS] Graphical file managers get stuck

2012-12-10 Thread Ken Dreyer
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Derrick Brashear sha...@gmail.com wrote: Actually, cmdebug output (and looking at the afsdb locks) will also tell, and is much more reliable as an indicator. Fair enough; I just don't have the expertise to read that :) I just tested this with Gnome on Fedora

Re: [OpenAFS] Graphical file managers get stuck

2012-12-09 Thread Ken Dreyer
Can you give more information about what you mean by your own afs-path? Are you using -dynroot when starting the afsd process? On Xfce I've noticed that the dynroot feature can conflict with GVFS's trash implementation, causing the Thunar GUI to freeze, and I imagine Nautilus would have a similar

Re: [OpenAFS] Graphical file managers get stuck

2012-12-09 Thread Ken Dreyer
On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 3:37 PM, jukka.tuomi...@finndesign.fi wrote: By own-path I mean local cell as opposed to foreign one. Oh, this may not be the same issue then. On my computer I see the GUI freezes happening for my local cell. You can try running nautilus through strace or gdb to see

[OpenAFS] Re: OpenAFS wiki organization

2012-11-20 Thread Ken Dreyer
On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 7:05 PM, Ken Dreyer ktdre...@ktdreyer.com wrote: I noticed that wiki.openafs.org has all the pages collected under an /AFSLore/ sub-directory. My hunch is that is just a legacy thing from when the wiki was hosted somewhere else. Now that we have our own wiki.openafs.org

Re: [OpenAFS] managing BosConfig in Puppet

2012-11-17 Thread Ken Dreyer
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 7:55 AM, Jeff Blaine jbla...@kickflop.net wrote: Ken, I recommend establishing templates for a generalized file server and DB server, then passing in the desired parameters per host over time as you see fit. Most easily done, take existing BosConfig files (copy) and

[OpenAFS] managing BosConfig in Puppet

2012-11-16 Thread Ken Dreyer
Does anyone have a good Puppet snippet for managing BosConfig in Puppet? I'm picturing something like: 1. Create the configuration by hand using bos commands 2. Copy the BosConfig file into Puppet / version control ...and it gets sort of fuzzy for me here. In the manual-updates world, you'd: 1.

Re: [OpenAFS] managing BosConfig in Puppet

2012-11-16 Thread Ken Dreyer
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 4:23 PM, Russ Allbery r...@stanford.edu wrote: Ken Dreyer ktdre...@ktdreyer.com writes: Does anyone have a good Puppet snippet for managing BosConfig in Puppet? I'm picturing something like: 1. Create the configuration by hand using bos commands 2. Copy the BosConfig

[OpenAFS] post-init scripts with systemd

2012-11-09 Thread Ken Dreyer
Fedora has switched to systemd for service management. A year ago, Edward Yang contributed systemd unit files for OpenAFS.org under /src/packaging/RedHat. In the classic SysV-style init scripts, there was an undocumented option $AFS_POST_INIT, and users could set this option to a script that

Re: [OpenAFS] strange kernel dependancy for kmod-openafs

2012-11-07 Thread Ken Dreyer
On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 2:52 PM, David Bear david.b...@asu.edu wrote: wget http://openafs.org/dl/openafs/1.4.10/rhel5/i386/kmod-openafs-1.4.10-1.1.`uname -r` but that gives me a 404... Any advice appreciated. Each time Red Hat releases a new kernel packages, someone has to volunteer to do

[OpenAFS] OpenAFS wiki organization

2012-11-01 Thread Ken Dreyer
I noticed that wiki.openafs.org has all the pages collected under an /AFSLore/ sub-directory. My hunch is that is just a legacy thing from when the wiki was hosted somewhere else. Now that we have our own wiki.openafs.org name, any objections to moving everything under the main / directory? - Ken

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS wiki organization

2012-11-01 Thread Ken Dreyer
On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 8:50 PM, Russ Allbery r...@stanford.edu wrote: Dave Botsch bot...@cnf.cornell.edu writes: Will this change links to things on the wiki? If so, I would vote against making the change unless anything going to /AFSLore/ can be redirected to the new location so that exernal

Re: [OpenAFS] buildbot and packages

2012-09-17 Thread Ken Dreyer
Thanks everyone who replied. There was a lot of email on this thread, so I'm going to write a quick summary. There are concerns that this would increase the support load on organizational helpdesks that support AFS internally, and on the OpenAFS community overall. There are concerns that

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: buildbot and packages

2012-09-17 Thread Ken Dreyer
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Andrew Deason adea...@sinenomine.net wrote: On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 10:25:38 -0600 Ken Dreyer ktdre...@ktdreyer.com wrote: I think a good next step would be to decide how we should handle version numbers in snapshot packages. For example: should configure.ac

Re: [OpenAFS] buildbot and packages

2012-09-14 Thread Ken Dreyer
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 9:04 AM, Benjamin Kaduk ka...@mit.edu wrote: On Thu, 13 Sep 2012, Chaz Chandler wrote: Also, there is a question of what version number to put on snapshots so that they will sort properly between real releases. Ordinarily git describe would be an easy way to come up

[OpenAFS] buildbot and packages

2012-09-13 Thread Ken Dreyer
Would it be feasible or desirable to have Buildbot actually provide install-able packages (eg. RPMs on Linux, MSIs on Windows)? It could help new users confirm yes, this change fixes my bug. - Ken ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org

[OpenAFS] pushing a gerrit change to openafs.org

2012-09-05 Thread Ken Dreyer
It's a bummer that http://gerrit.openafs.org/8032 didn't deploy to the site. Is this something I can help troubleshoot on the backend? - Ken ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info

Re: [OpenAFS] Distro vs. @sys. Round 1: FIGHT!

2012-08-23 Thread Ken Dreyer
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 8:02 AM, Jeff Blaine jbla...@kickflop.net wrote: Any other options, or is the standard thing everyone does? The last time this was brought up[1], it sounded like there was rough consensus for the following default upstream @sysname list on Linux: ${arch}_linux

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: reauth code?

2012-08-23 Thread Ken Dreyer
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Gary Gatling gsgat...@ncsu.edu wrote: So perhaps we can use this as a start. Would still be curious if others are having to run jobs as certain kerberos/afs users and how they are doing that from cron jobs. k5start is quite nice. It sets up the PAG, gets a

Re: [OpenAFS] authenticating using AD servers hidden behind firewall

2012-06-04 Thread Ken Dreyer
On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 12:51 PM, John Tang Boyland boyl...@pabst.cs.uwm.edu wrote: We have configured our AFS servers to authenticate either using our institution AD servers or using our own MIT kerberos realm. Our situation is sort of similar, except we're using Heimdal instead of MIT. In our

Re: [OpenAFS] authenticating using AD servers hidden behind firewall

2012-06-04 Thread Ken Dreyer
On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 1:18 PM, John Tang Boyland boyl...@pabst.cs.uwm.edu wrote: Or do you create the Heimdahl principals on demand?  What is the protocol? Currently we do this on-demand, if a user requests it. In order to automate the Heimdal account creation, we are looking into building

[OpenAFS] AFS ntp docs

2012-03-13 Thread Ken Dreyer
From the Unix Quickstart Guide[1]: Historically, AFS used to distribute its own version of the Network Time Protocol Daemon. Whilst this is still provided for existing sites ... I'm guessing this is completely obsolete by now[2], and we can remove the references in the OpenAFS docs? - Ken [1]

Re: [OpenAFS] AFS ntp docs

2012-03-13 Thread Ken Dreyer
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 6:50 PM, Derrick Brashear sha...@gmail.com wrote: yes. AFS NTP is dead Thanks. A proposal to adjust the docs is at http://gerrit.openafs.org/6903 - Ken ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: sysname for 3.x linux kernel

2012-03-08 Thread Ken Dreyer
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Andrew Deason adea...@sinenomine.net wrote: Well that's definitely not coming from us; we're not going to set a sysname like 'fedora' (though setting a distribution-specific sysname does make sense). A brief look at the rpmfusion packaging suggests it may be

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: sysname for 3.x linux kernel

2012-03-08 Thread Ken Dreyer
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Russ Allbery r...@stanford.edu wrote: But it seems like a disruptive change without a lot of benefit to me.  I suppose if we defined the default sysname as the list amd64_linux amd64_linux26, it wouldn't be that disruptive, but it might still be surprising (and

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: sysname for 3.x linux kernel

2012-03-08 Thread Ken Dreyer
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Andrew Deason adea...@sinenomine.net wrote: A solution that may require fewer tweaks in the future in general is to extract the existing sysname list and just add entries in front of it. Or just add the output from `livesys` at the end, instead of trying to

Re: [OpenAFS] Fedora 16 and Openafs

2012-02-28 Thread Ken Dreyer
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Berthold Cogel co...@uni-koeln.de wrote: Hello! I'm trying to get openafs to work on Fedora 16. The rpms from rpmfusion did work with older kernel versions but failed totally with recent kernels. Hmm, what's the error you get with RPM Fusion's RPMs? I'd like

[OpenAFS] OpenAFS on OS X 10.8

2012-02-24 Thread Ken Dreyer
I was curious if anyone's tried OpenAFS on Apple's 10.8 developer preview yet? How did it go? - Ken ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info

Re: [OpenAFS] Can't get tokens since upgrading to 1.7.6 and Heimdal

2012-02-22 Thread Ken Dreyer
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 6:44 AM, David Goldberg david.goldbe...@verizon.net wrote: $ aklog -d Authenticating to cell sub.my.org. Getting v5 tickets: afs/sub.my@sub.my.org Getting v5 tickets: afs/sub.my@my.org Getting v5 tickets: a...@my.org Kerberos error code returned by get_cred:

Re: [OpenAFS] problem installing kmod-openafs from yum repo

2012-02-17 Thread Ken Dreyer
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 6:51 AM, Natxo Asenjo natxo.ase...@gmail.com wrote: I am setting up a test openafs lab with centos 6.2. If this is just a test lab to get OpenAFS up and running, I'd recommend the OpenAFS binary packages at elrepo.org. ELRepo uses kABI to track RHEL kernels, which is

Re: [OpenAFS] problem installing kmod-openafs from yum repo

2012-02-17 Thread Ken Dreyer
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Natxo Asenjo natxo.ase...@gmail.com wrote: the config.log is very long (2669 lines). I posted it in pastebin: http://pastebin.com/BUkP0stW make: command not found You'll need to install make, at a minimum. ___

Re: [OpenAFS] OSX Lion - KAPWEXPIRED error

2012-02-13 Thread Ken Dreyer
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 8:09 AM, Maurizio Martinelli martinelli.mauri...@gmail.com wrote: In summary, $ kinit username@cell $ aklog -c cell works, while 'aklog' gives me the error. Let's say that the problem is partially solved, for me the solution is good enough. If anybody wants to go

Re: [OpenAFS] openafs-1.6.0 build fails on kernel-3.2.0

2012-01-05 Thread Ken Dreyer
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Dale Pontius pont...@btv.ibm.com wrote: This morning Gentoo distributed a shiny new kernel-3.2.0, so of course I had to build it. Next I had to rebuild all of the out-of-tree kernel modules, including openafs-1.6.0. It failed, relevant lines: Did you try

[OpenAFS] 1.6.1?

2011-12-06 Thread Ken Dreyer
Should we expect 1.6.1 soon? (RPM Fusion's going to need some patches against 1.6.0 to keep up with Fedora 16's kernel, and from IRC I hear Fedora isn't the only distro in this position.) - Ken ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org

Re: [OpenAFS] suEXEC/FastCGI/OpenAFS question

2011-11-23 Thread Ken Dreyer
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Aaron Knister aar...@umbc.edu wrote: I've devised another approach, dropping the mpm-itk patches and using suEXEC and fastcgi for php instead. I'm trying to research the same problem, but I haven't come up with a working solution yet. I'm using mod_php, and I'd

Re: [OpenAFS] Use Server volume to hold software to be installed on client machines

2011-11-06 Thread Ken Dreyer
On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 9:19 AM, Jonathan Billings jsbil...@umich.edu wrote: I do this already, in a somewhat similar fashion.  I have RHEL systems, and have yum repos that refer to file:///afs/cellname/path/to/repo where it sees RPM packages. On a tangent... do distribute the OpenAFS client

[OpenAFS] clients and multiple cpus

2011-11-03 Thread Ken Dreyer
At the OpenAFS conference in DESY, there was some discussion about pinning the AFS fileserver processes to a specific CPU core to improve performance. Is it similarly advisable to pin a client's afsd to a single core also? _ Ken ___ OpenAFS-info mailing

Re: [OpenAFS] openafs addsite on the same machine, different parition, problem

2011-10-31 Thread Ken Dreyer
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 4:19 AM, Simon Wilkinson s...@inf.ed.ac.uk wrote: On 31 Oct 2011, at 10:03, Jan Krcmar honza...@gmail.com wrote: i'm trying to create rw volume on afs1:vicepa and ro volume on afs1:vicepb the following problem occurs: This isn't a supported configuration. You can't

[OpenAFS] download links

2011-09-24 Thread Ken Dreyer
Just a suggestion for the download links: The section to download Source Code on the website looks a bit crowded, with 12 links. Can we drop the plain .tar releases, and only do .tar.gz or .tar.bz2 ? This would also save a bit of disk space on the download mirror. - Ken

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Performance problems seem to be coming back

2011-09-12 Thread Ken Dreyer
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 5:46 AM, Dale Pontius pont...@btv.ibm.com wrote: In this case, I'm wanting something that acts more like normal AFS packets, and I believe that's what rxdebug is doing in this case.  Some people around here have been using ping as an indicator of network latency, and

[OpenAFS] concurrent requests to AFS

2011-09-09 Thread Ken Dreyer
I'm doing some benchmarking on with Apache and OpenAFS, and I ran across an unexpected problem. The client is a RHEL 6 VM in KVM, 24 3GHz cores, 95GB RAM. Using a MaxClients setting in Apache of 1, 2, or 4, I get OK performance (1600-2400 requests/sec). I'm using Apache's prefork MPM, and in

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS inconsistent behavior - Windows 7 32 bit

2011-08-24 Thread Ken Dreyer
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 6:55 AM, Dvorkin, Asya dvork...@umdnj.edu wrote: Has anyone gotten OpenAFS  working on Windows 7 32 bit?  If so, using which versions of MIT Kerberos and OpenAFS? Yes, at least several dozen clients on Win 7. KFW 3.2.2:

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: kernel panic in 1.4.14.1 on rhel6

2011-08-12 Thread Ken Dreyer
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Aaron Knister aar...@umbc.edu wrote: I know everyone's busy, but out of curiosity has anybody had a chance to look at this? Could it be that it's not even an AFS bug, but a linux kernel issue? I'm getting ready to put a webserver into production and am concerned

[OpenAFS] -backuptree and defaults

2011-08-05 Thread Ken Dreyer
I'm curious why -backuptree / FollowBackupPath is not enabled by default for clients? To me it makes more sense to have backup volume traversals follow the same paradigm as RW traversals. - Ken ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org

[OpenAFS] Re: -backuptree and defaults

2011-08-05 Thread Ken Dreyer
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Ken Dreyer ktdre...@ktdreyer.com wrote: I'm curious why -backuptree / FollowBackupPath is not enabled by default for clients? To me it makes more sense to have backup volume traversals follow the same paradigm as RW traversals. Looks like this was discussed

Re: [OpenAFS] /usr/sbin/backup

2011-07-02 Thread Ken Dreyer
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 10:20 PM, Russ Allbery r...@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? /usr/sbin/backup.afs ? - Ken

[OpenAFS] /usr/sbin/backup

2011-07-01 Thread Ken Dreyer
The /usr/sbin/backup binary in OpenAFS conflicts with a binary of the same name in Coda. Before RPM Fusion renames the binary (eg. backup.afs), do any other distros have existing conventions for avoiding this particular conflict? Bug is at https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1727 -

[OpenAFS] AFS and freedesktop.org trash

2011-06-01 Thread Ken Dreyer
I was curious if anyone has experience with AFS and the freedesktop.org trashcan spec. http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/trash-spec The spec references a topdir area where a .Trash or a .Trash-$uid directory can exist at the top of a filesystem mount. For AFS, that translates to

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: AFS and freedesktop.org trash

2011-06-01 Thread Ken Dreyer
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 11:57 AM, omall...@msu.edu wrote: If you are using something like nscd, then you can adjust negative ttl's in the nscd.conf file. I did use nscd for a while. I regularly sign in and out of a VPN on this computer, and nscd was caching the negative responses for

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS and Windows user account password syncronization

2011-05-25 Thread Ken Dreyer
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 7:12 AM, Claudio Prono claudio.pr...@atpss.net wrote: When the Windows Client change his Kerberos password on the OpenAFS server I'm not sure what this means, because OpenAFS servers (besides kaserver) don't store users' passwords. Can you provide more information about

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: AFS SRV records and 1.6

2011-05-18 Thread Ken Dreyer
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Dave Botsch bot...@cnf.cornell.edu wrote: So, in 1.6, are AFSDB records no longer used? Or will they be used if the SRV records do not exist? This is what confused me also. I believe the SRV record is consulted first. If that does not exist, then AFSDB. - Ken

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: AFS SRV records and 1.6

2011-05-16 Thread Ken Dreyer
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Andrew Deason adea...@sinenomine.net wrote: On Mon, 16 May 2011 15:12:21 -0600 Ken Dreyer ktdre...@ktdreyer.com wrote: I've been testing the 1.6pre4 release in Linux. Works great. I'd been using AFSDB records on 1.4, and I was hoping to try out the new

Re: [OpenAFS] Unable to get tokens after replacing Win2k3 DC with a Win2k8 DC

2011-04-19 Thread Ken Dreyer
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 1:06 PM, Thomas Smith theitsm...@gmail.com wrote: It seems that this RODC is creating issues for us. What appears to be happening is the RODC issues the server a TGT. When the server attempts to acquire a TGS, the RODC forwards the request to an RWDC but that server

Re: [OpenAFS] Future of 1.4 release series with regards to new Linux kernels

2011-04-15 Thread Ken Dreyer
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Derrick Brashear sha...@gmail.com wrote: To that end, it's our expectation that for the continued stability of the 1.4 release series, that kernels beyond 2.6.38 would not be supported Roughly speaking, what is the expected EOL for OpenAFS 1.4? - Ken

Re: [OpenAFS] pam_afs_session in Fedora?

2011-03-17 Thread Ken Dreyer
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Russ Allbery r...@stanford.edu wrote: Ken Dreyer ktdre...@ktdreyer.com writes: I would like to try to get Russ's pam_afs_session into Fedora/EPEL. Since OpenAFS itself is not permitted for inclusion (I think it's because no kernel modules?), I'm hoping

Re: [OpenAFS] pam_afs_session in Fedora?

2011-03-17 Thread Ken Dreyer
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 6:48 PM, Russ Allbery r...@stanford.edu wrote: If you build on a system without any aklog, you will have to specify it via either the PAM options or krb5.conf. Rats. There is no aklog in the path at compile time, because no package in Fedora provides /usr/bin/aklog.

Re: [OpenAFS] pam_afs_session in Fedora?

2011-03-17 Thread Ken Dreyer
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 7:03 PM, Russ Allbery r...@stanford.edu wrote: Ken Dreyer ktdre...@ktdreyer.com writes: On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 6:48 PM, Russ Allbery r...@stanford.edu wrote:  If you build on a system without any aklog, you will have to specify  it via either the PAM options or krb5

[OpenAFS] pam_afs_session in Fedora?

2011-02-18 Thread Ken Dreyer
I would like to try to get Russ's pam_afs_session into Fedora/EPEL. Since OpenAFS itself is not permitted for inclusion (I think it's because no kernel modules?), I'm hoping that there will still be utility to at least having pam_afs_session available. It won't be built with openafs-devel, but I

Re: [OpenAFS] pam_afs_session in Fedora?

2011-02-18 Thread Ken Dreyer
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Brandon S Allbery KF8NH allber...@gmail.com wrote: On 2/18/11 14:14 , Andy Cobaugh wrote: Just curious why you're not just using the stock pam_krb5? At least in a plain jane krb5 environment, pam_krb5 has worked fine for us (though I haven't tried very recent

[OpenAFS] /usr/afsws convention

2010-11-09 Thread Ken Dreyer
I'm looking at tidying and standardizing my $PATH across systems, and I had a question about the /usr/afsws path. Is the /usr/afsws convention considered deprecated? I've already got symlinks from /usr/afsws to /afs/cellname/@sys/usr/afsws. I also have /afs/cellname/apps symlinking to

[OpenAFS] experience of SQLite on AFS

2010-04-19 Thread Ken Dreyer
Thought I would add another datapoint to the discussion of SQLite on AFS. We have several Solaris 10 servers running OpenAFS client 1.4.x and PHP 5.2.x. We really wanted to get PHP's PDO-SQLite extension working with AFS. (PHP bundles SQLite 3.3.x). We anticipate that most of our uses would be

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: experience of SQLite on AFS

2010-04-19 Thread Ken Dreyer
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Andrew Deason adea...@sinenomine.net wrote: On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 09:41:06 -0600 Ken Dreyer ktdre...@ktdreyer.com wrote: flock - Whole-file locking. This completely hung on Solaris when opening sqlite files on read-only mounts. Even if the SQLite operations

[OpenAFS] Google Summer of Code

2008-04-15 Thread Ken Dreyer
I saw that the applications deadline for the OpenAFS/Google Summer of Code has come and gone. Were there any volunteers? - Ken ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info

Re: [OpenAFS] Google Summer of Code

2008-04-15 Thread Ken Dreyer
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 1:45 AM, Simon Wilkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 15 Apr 2008, at 08:39, Ken Dreyer wrote: I saw that the applications deadline for the OpenAFS/Google Summer of Code has come and gone. Were there any volunteers? In short, yes. Great! I look forward

[OpenAFS] Perl-AFS with OpenAFS 1.4.4

2008-02-11 Thread Ken Dreyer
, and now the module works. The point of this email is to to see if anyone else has dealt with this problem, or to check with someone who knows C (or libafsrpc) to see if this is the correct way to make this work. Thanks! - Ken Dreyer --- src/AFS.xs.orig 2008-02-11 18:32:23.354866000 -0500 +++ src/AFS.xs