Re: [OpenAFS] convert 'vos dump' output to tar or zip?

2018-01-30 Thread Thomas Kula
On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 04:20:03PM -0500, Todd Lewis wrote: > Has anybody a tool to convert "vos dump" output to a tar or zip format? > > Is the "vos dump" format usable by anything other than "vos restore"? > *Ages* ago I used 'afsdump_extract' from http://grand.central.org/dl/software/dumpsc

Re: [OpenAFS] how to tell if a dir resides in AFS volume?

2013-09-17 Thread Thomas Kula
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 10:56:30PM -0400, Michael Meffie wrote: > On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 14:27:57 +0200 > Markus Koeberl wrote: > > > On Tuesday 17 September 2013 13:50:07 chas williams - CONTRACTOR wrote: > > > I suppose you could try an afs ioctl of some sort against the file, in > > > a script yo

Re: [OpenAFS] Run file server without client?

2013-03-25 Thread Thomas Kula
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 07:56:20PM +, Brent Dunlock wrote: > >Can you run a file server without also running a client? In >particular, could you run a server without running the kernel piece >(i.e. kmod-openafs... or dkms etc.)? My understanding is that the >

Re: [OpenAFS] Shutdown/startup of entire cell

2013-01-10 Thread Thomas Kula
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 10:50:27PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > Hi. > > Due to circumstances way beyond my control (a major network > upgrade), I am going to need to shutdown our entire AFS cell > this Saturday. So, tha is less than 36 hours from now. Others have addressed the proper order

Re: [OpenAFS] Question about directory names

2011-11-29 Thread Thomas Kula
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 01:44:13PM -0500, Hunter McMillen wrote: > >Hi everyone, >This is probably a real beginner question but why do some cellnames >begin with a period? I couldn't find anything about this in the docs, >or perhaps I missed it but I was hoping someone cou

Re: [OpenAFS] rsync into afs directory: File too large (27)

2011-06-10 Thread Thomas Kula
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 05:41:49PM -0400, Dan Scott wrote: > Hi, > > I'm synchronising (with a cronjob) some files from a directory on a > standalone server into an AFS directory on another and I receive > (several of) the following errors: > > rsync: mkstemp "/afs/example.com/volumename/filename

Re: [OpenAFS] Recovery Tools

2011-04-17 Thread Thomas Kula
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

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS Backups

2011-03-16 Thread Thomas Kula
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 01:18:06PM -0700, Bill Stivers wrote: > Over at UCSC we're evaluating our AFS backup options- to this point we've > been using the native OpenAFS tape and backup tools, but we're wondering if > anyone does it a different, better way? > Here at UMich we have a homebrew sy

Re: [OpenAFS] Listing all volume mount points

2011-02-24 Thread Thomas Kula
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 07:28:14PM -0500, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: > On Thu, 24 Feb 2011, Thomas Smith wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >I am looking for a way to monitor quota usage in order to address quota or > >disk space issues before they become problems. > > Adding on to Thomas and Andrew's comments, it

Re: [OpenAFS] Listing all volume mount points

2011-02-24 Thread Thomas Kula
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 05:09:33PM -0700, Thomas Smith wrote: > >Hi, >I am looking for a way to monitor quota usage in order to address >quota or disk space issues before they become problems. >fs listq provides the information that I need, but I have been >unable to

Re: [OpenAFS] calculating memory

2011-01-28 Thread Thomas Kula
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 10:38:37PM -0500, Gary Gatling wrote: > [...] > I gather real servers aren't an option `cause management really > likes moving most everything into VMware. We already moved all our > license and web servers into VMware and we have some other weird > servers working in it al

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: State of the Michigan shadow system (long)

2010-12-20 Thread Thomas Kula
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 07:00:18PM -0500, Steve Simmons wrote: > > On Dec 20, 2010, at 3:29 PM, Andrew Deason wrote: > > > On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 14:46:38 -0500 > > Steve Simmons wrote: > > > >> A shadow volume is a read-only remote clone of a primary volume. We > >> had to create some terminology

Re: [OpenAFS] AFS version of sudo for admin ?

2010-12-17 Thread Thomas Kula
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 08:29:41AM -0600, John Tang Boyland wrote: > Does anyone know of a "sudo" like command for AFS admin commands? > admindo vos release pkg.foo > It would be nice, but not essential to have the token stick around > for 5 minutes in case you need to do another admindo soon

Re: [OpenAFS] Overview? Linux filesystem choices

2010-09-28 Thread Thomas Kula
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 12:49:59PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Jeff Blaine writes: > > > Barring an equivalent, what Linux setup... > > > a) seems most stable > > b) is fsck-less > > > Even quick grunt responses are appreciated. > > We use ext3. It isn't the fastest or the most featurefu

Re: [OpenAFS] AFS root/admin passwords lost

2010-08-03 Thread Thomas Kula
On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 01:40:08PM -0400, Cory Puckett wrote: > >Thank you for your quick reply. I really appreciate it. >You will have to forgive me. I am new to using AFS and I'm learning as >I go. >I ran kadmin locally on the server as root and go this: >[r...@# bin]# ka

Re: [OpenAFS] AFS root/admin passwords lost

2010-08-03 Thread Thomas Kula
On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 12:39:48PM -0400, Cory Puckett wrote: > >I just took this job and one of the first things they had me do was >change the root passwords on the linux servers. After I did this the >Kerberos admin password that worked before I changed the machine's >r

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS on an OSX xserve (?)

2010-07-22 Thread Thomas Kula
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 08:47:24PM -0400, Tom Briggs wrote: > >Dear OpenAFS community: > >I am working on integrating a new Apple XServe into our AFS server >install, currently three Linux servers. I've been noticing some very >strange things: >(2) After much hacking

Re: [OpenAFS] user home directory replication

2010-07-14 Thread Thomas Kula
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 10:49:02PM +0100, Simon Wilkinson wrote: > > On 14 Jul 2010, at 19:04, Thomas Kula wrote: > > > > My only concern with this thing would be having users that are > > crafty enough to know that they can mount some other volume > > in their h

Re: [OpenAFS] user home directory replication

2010-07-14 Thread Thomas Kula
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 10:59:50AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Jonathan Nilsson writes: > > > I can't think of any reason NOT to proceed with this... so if anyone who > > has tried this has any advice, it'd be much appreciated! > > Various people have done this sort of thing before. It works i

Re: [OpenAFS] Monitoring bad ACLs of webpages: best practices? faster search?

2010-05-07 Thread Thomas Kula
On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 02:14:36PM -0400, Kevin Walsh wrote: > Hello, > > I'm working on problems caused by users mistakenly leaving excessive > write permissions on the directories of their webpages. Does anyone > know if there is a best practices or other guidance document > somewhere? I real

Re: [OpenAFS] Shared r/w access to numerous sqlite databases: an appropriate application for AFS?

2010-04-08 Thread Thomas Kula
On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 04:06:18PM -0400, Brandon Simmons wrote: > > Thanks for the response. It seems like whole-file locking in sqlite > would be a good choice for me in any case, and I can't imagine needing > that kind of writing concurrency. > > Doing a little more research, this message desc

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: servers not establishing a quorum

2010-04-06 Thread Thomas Kula
On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 12:41:08PM -0500, Andrew Deason wrote: > On Tue, 6 Apr 2010 09:11:35 -0400 (EDT) > li...@drewstud.com wrote: > > > Tue Apr 6 09:09:46 2010 Received beacon from unknown host 172.20.1.26 > > What is this address? Your udebug output shows that it expects one of > the dbserve

Re: [OpenAFS] recommended hardware for new production environment

2010-03-19 Thread Thomas Kula
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 02:54:15PM -0700, Jonathan Nilsson wrote: >Mainly, I am interested in finding out how much CPU and RAM the >database server components of OpenAFS will take.? We have donated old >hardware with Dual Intel Xeon 3.06GHz processors and 4GB DDR2 RAM.? >

Re: [OpenAFS] recommended hardware for new production environment

2010-03-19 Thread Thomas Kula
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 02:54:15PM -0700, Jonathan Nilsson wrote: > >Mainly, I am interested in finding out how much CPU and RAM the >database server components of OpenAFS will take.? We have donated old >hardware with Dual Intel Xeon 3.06GHz processors and 4GB DDR2 RAM.? >

Re: [OpenAFS] why PAGs?

2010-03-01 Thread Thomas Kula
On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 10:18:38PM +, Simon Wilkinson wrote: > > On 1 Mar 2010, at 22:12, Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR) wrote: > > >In message ,Adam Megacz writes: > >>to UNIX for a moment, if we assume that there is a local userid for > >>every PTS identity, are PAGs really necessary? Even for

Re: [OpenAFS] Removing the ability to change the PAG of the parent

2010-02-16 Thread Thomas Kula
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 12:46:23AM +, Simon Wilkinson wrote: > We're currently (on opeanfs-devel) discussing a new mechanism for > storing tokens in the kernel - this new mechanism is required to > support new security layers such as rxgk and rxk5. There have been a > significant number of post

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Cron Jobs for "Regular" Users

2010-01-27 Thread Thomas Kula
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 04:27:59PM +0100, Holger Rauch wrote: > I tried to follow your suggestion. I had come accross this mail: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/kerbe...@mit.edu/msg03229.html > > However, when following the steps described in there, I get the > following error message after havin

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

2010-01-11 Thread Thomas Kula
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Gary Gatling wrote: > > Greetings, > > We run several openafs servers at NCSU on Solaris 10 and Red Hat Enterprise > Linux. > > By default, the servers restart every Sunday morning at 4:00am. This was not > a problem until we asked another group to take over our ba

Re: [OpenAFS] Nomenclature Follow-Up

2009-09-02 Thread Thomas Kula
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 06:14:27AM -0700, beelz wrote: > > > Well, I got my AFS server up and running and have a better understanding of > the hierarchy and mount points so please disregard my previous question. I > still don't have LDAP configured but so far I've been able to connect and > move

Re: [OpenAFS] No space left on device error -- despite partition being only 33% full

2009-08-14 Thread Thomas Kula
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 03:54:41PM -0700, Ken Elkabany wrote: > Hi all, > > My afs clients have begun receiving a "No space left on device" error > when attempting to write to or delete from a specific afs volume. The > volume in question called "jobs" has both a RW and RO site on the same > parti

Re: [OpenAFS] openafs and screen command - loosing tokens

2009-02-13 Thread Thomas Kula
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 01:19:27PM +, Vladimir Konrad wrote: > > Hello, > > I (+ my users) would like to run long running jobs under "screen" command, > but currently > the job looses access to afs after a user logs out. > > I tried running kinit + aklog within the "screen" session, but thi

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: [OpenAFS-devel] interface for vos split

2009-01-08 Thread Thomas Kula
On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 12:32:20PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > "Steven Jenkins" writes: > > > Thus it seems to me most straightforward from a user-experience > > viewpoint to require the vnode. and not provide a -dirname option, but > > make sure the man page shows how to use fs gettfid to dete

Re: [OpenAFS] Propagating "admin" flag into Kerberos 5

2008-09-26 Thread Thomas Kula
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 12:11:28PM -0500, Daniel Debertin wrote: > I'm doing this for my AFS admin, as described in the documentation: > > ka> setfields admin -flags admin > > Which works fine using OpenAFS's kaserver. What is the equivalent in > Kerberos 5/Heimdal? The kas setfields man page sa

Re: [OpenAFS] Newbie question.

2008-07-21 Thread Thomas Kula
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 11:25:13AM +0100, Max Lock wrote: > >Hi Folks, >I'm very near completing my first openafs setup. I've installed the >MIT kerberos 5 service and the openafs service on seperate debian >machines, as I plan to add extra AFS cells in the near future. ha

[OpenAFS] Second-generation Volume Shadows at UMich

2008-05-19 Thread Thomas Kula
The following is a status update on where we are at with volume shadows at UMich. Both Michael Garrison and I will be at the Workshop starting Wednesday; feel free to hunt us down and ask any questions you may have. Second Generation Volume Shadows at the University of Michigan = What are Shado

Re: [OpenAFS] vos listaddrs ("stale" address)

2008-04-10 Thread Thomas Kula
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 12:45:45PM +0100, Vladimir Konrad wrote: > > Hello, > > I had a test afs server set up (which is not in existence any-more). > But when I run: > > vos listaddrs > > The test server still shows there (even it is not running any-more). > Is this harmless? > > I could not

[OpenAFS] 1.4.7-prerelease 1 and OS X 10.4 success

2008-03-27 Thread Thomas Kula
I've pounded on it by downloading, unpacking and building the netbsd 4.0 source, and it seems to have handled it just fine. -- Thomas L. Kula | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://kula.tproa.net/ ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lis

Re: [OpenAFS] Using TSM with AFS.

2008-02-01 Thread Thomas Kula
On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 10:55:26AM +0100, Anders Magnusson wrote: > > But; we would like to do real volume backups in TSM and store > generations of files etc, which seems > to be quite difficult as it works right now. > Coincidentially, a co-worker and I were musing over something very similar

Re: [OpenAFS] Some questions about AFS

2008-01-18 Thread Thomas Kula
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 05:14:29PM +0100, Anders Magnusson wrote: > Ok, thanks. A related question to this is how database replication > works, the databases > became quite large. 80MB prdb and 40MB vldb. Will it only copy changed > entries or > may the whole database be copied? Here at UMic

Re: [OpenAFS] AFS and XEN Virtualization

2007-07-09 Thread Thomas Kula
On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 04:06:30PM -0500, Jeff Greer wrote: > Without going into to much detail could you explain this comment? It > sounds like there is a "gotcha" you are trying to raise AFS supports read-only replicas. This is the main gotcha most people experience. If you are willing to write

Re: [OpenAFS] AFS and XEN Virtualization

2007-07-09 Thread Thomas Kula
On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 01:41:55PM -0500, Jeff Greer wrote: > I am in the process of researching migration from windows serves to > Linux. Currently my windows servers use DFS. I want to know if the > following will work. > > 2 replicating failover AFS servers The other thing I just thought of

Re: [OpenAFS] AFS and XEN Virtualization

2007-07-09 Thread Thomas Kula
On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 01:41:55PM -0500, Jeff Greer wrote: > > My question is this...can AFS and Xen coexist on the same machine well? > You might want to look at the talk I gave at this year's workshop: http://www.pmw.org/afsbpw07/talks/kula.html "Xen as a test environment" Xen-side I have

Re: [OpenAFS] Fwd: OpenAFS Newbie thinking about intra-cell dynamic DNS

2007-05-15 Thread Thomas Kula
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 09:36:50PM -0700, Doug Hirsch wrote: > I read your answer to another question on OpenAFS-info and noticed > your hostname. By any chance, have you come up with or heard a way to > run a distributed cell across dynamic DNS? The most promising > strategy I recall from last

Re: [OpenAFS] Newbie, installation help needed.

2007-05-15 Thread Thomas Kula
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 11:56:59PM -0400, Neil Woolstencroft wrote: > >When i create the partition do i call it "/vicep" or do i literally >call it "/vicepXX" ? You can have up to 255 vice partitions (I believe that is the correct number). They are of the form /vicepX or /vicepXY, for

Re: [OpenAFS] a noobs question and problems on a new cell

2007-05-04 Thread Thomas Kula
On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 08:53:19AM -0400, Jason Edgecombe wrote: > The typical scenario is as follows: > > /afs/domain/volume is the read-only copy if it exists. > /afs/.domain/volume is always the read-write copy. <-- note the > /afs/domain This is referred to at the "dotted" path. > > writing

Re: [OpenAFS] Problems setting up an initial AFS cell...

2007-04-05 Thread Thomas Kula
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 05:51:28PM -0600, Joseph Galbraith wrote: > All right, I've been following these slides using > OpenAFS 1.5.17 and a mit kerberos kdc. > > Everything appears to have worked correctly, up to > the point where I'm aklog'ing for the first time, when > I get this the following

Re: [OpenAFS] Problems setting up an initial AFS cell...

2007-03-22 Thread Thomas Kula
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 12:25:44PM -0600, Joseph Galbraith wrote: > > Ahh... thanks. > > I've been trying to follow the quick start guide. > > Any hints as to what I should be doing instead? The > quick start just keeps referring me to contacting > IBM support if I don't want to use kaserver.

Re: [OpenAFS] Webserver, openAFS, kerberos

2007-02-26 Thread Thomas Kula
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 01:52:14PM +0100, Alexander Al wrote: > Hi, > > We have a openAFS-server on FC5 and in time we will provide > a X window terminal server on our network. The latter isn't the problem. > But there is also a request for servicing a Webserver. Now I have here > a problem, is th

Re: [OpenAFS] Is OpenAFS for me?

2006-03-07 Thread Thomas Kula
Karl Bellve wrote: > > >But, I would like to have a /afs/home that is 1TB made up of various >computers/drives. If I add a new HD to a new computer, can I now >expand /afs/home to include the size of the new HD, or must I make a >new AFS? > Remember, a volume is basically a chunk of space wit