Re: [OpenAFS] transarc.com

2005-09-21 Thread Norman P. B. Joseph
On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 16:08 +0100, ed wrote: > Hello, > > Why does transarc.com point to a porn site? Because porn generates more money than distributed file systems do? IBM must have let it lapse. Knock me over with a feather. -- Norman Joseph, System Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OpenAFS] /etc/pam.d/login

2004-11-15 Thread Norman P. B. Joseph
I found it useful to put the AFS PAM entry into /etc/pam.d/system-auth, which, in Red Hat's PAM scheme, is included in just about every other PAM configuration file. (The system-auth PAM file is generated by one of the Red Hat GUI admin tools, which doesn't know about AFS authentication, so if you

Re: [OpenAFS] Pro's & Con's of /usr/local on AFS....

2004-10-29 Thread Norman P. B. Joseph
Excuse me for being dense, (and I was in one of those Transarc training classes back in the day), but what's the harm in that symbolic link? -norm On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 11:34, Mitch Collinsworth wrote: > On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Jim Rees wrote: > > > '/afs/isis' is a symbolic link, leading to a

RE: [OpenAFS] Replicated volume refuses to be salvaged

2003-02-25 Thread Norman P. B. Joseph
On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 14:43, Broughton, Travis V wrote: > If the RW is still there, I'd recommend: > > "vos remsite" on the broken RO, then move the RW somewhere else, then > zap the broken RO, then add another RO instance and release. Well, that, indeed, solved it. Though I'm no closer to unde

Re: [OpenAFS] Replicated volume refuses to be salvaged

2003-02-25 Thread Norman P. B. Joseph
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Re: [OpenAFS] Replicated volume refuses to be salvaged

2003-02-25 Thread Norman P. B. Joseph
t;, O_RDONLY) Err#2 ENOENT 159:unlink("/viceps/salvage.inodes.c2t0d2s6.159") Err#2 ENOENT I can provide more "truss" context if it would be helpful, but that sure looks odd. It also seems that maybe it isn't a question of the length of the pathname. -norm On Tue, 2003-02-2

Re: [OpenAFS] Replicated volume refuses to be salvaged

2003-02-25 Thread Norman P. B. Joseph
Assuming that to be the case, how do I recover? Is it as simple as adding "-force" to the salvage command, or am I misreading what the effect of the "-force" option is meant to be? Thanks, -norm On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 14:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi - > > You might find that salvaging AN

Re: [OpenAFS] Replicated volume refuses to be salvaged

2003-02-25 Thread Norman P. B. Joseph
On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 13:12, Derrick J Brashear wrote: > > If you roll over the pid space so you're using <= 4 digit pids, what > changes? > > I'm not kidding. You anticipated my response nicely. :^) But even a 2-digit PID fails: # bos salvage sun43 s 536871053 -show Starting salvage. bos: w

Re: [OpenAFS] Replicated volume refuses to be salvaged

2003-02-25 Thread Norman P. B. Joseph
On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 03:09, Hartmut Reuter wrote: > Norman P. B. Joseph schrieb: > > I have a replicated volume (on the same server and partition as its RW > > volume) that won't attach, and won't respond to salvaging. Here's the > > SalvageLog en

[OpenAFS] Password expiration in UNIX

2001-05-04 Thread Norman P. B. Joseph
I'm aware that on most UNIX platforms an integrated AFS login will set an environment variable PASSWD_EXPIRES (AFS_PASSWD_EXPIRES on SGIs) to the number of days remaining before an AFS password expires. On windowing systems where the user may log in on Monday and stay logged in for weeks or until

[OpenAFS] Microsoft's DFS

2001-03-27 Thread Norman P. B. Joseph
Does anyone have any experience with or knowledge of Microsoft's DFS product? I'm asking here because some M$-centric types in my organization are looking at it in comparison with AFS (and, of course, with a bias towards Microsoft). Does anyone know a good source of un-biased information about i

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS Project List

2001-03-14 Thread Norman P. B. Joseph
On Mar 14, 9:33 Nickolai Zeldovich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > FWIW, I was also playing around with vos dump a while back and it > seemed to me rx performance was the bottleneck. Trying to read the > vnodes ahead of time in a separate thread, using aio to fetch vnodes > in parallel, etc, di