Stephan Wiesand wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
>>I'm up for suggestions.  But we do need some way to 'ping' the AFS servers so
>>that the client knows if it can safely come up without hanging.
>
>
> Adding -dynroot to the afsd options should avoid hangs as well, at least
> as long as no cell is actually accessed.
> And it should not cause any problems - unless a cell has anything in its
> root.afs volume that's not a mount point for a cell. But then, if the
> clients depend on it, they probably need AFS to work correctly at all.
>
> Cheers,
>         Stephan
>
>

Thanks for the suggestion Stephan, that works.
If no-one has any objections, we'll put that into the default options for the
openafs of S.L. 303.
I have already talked to our openafs server admins and they not only didn't
have any objections, but think it is a very good idea.

Thanks
Troy
p.s. Jean, when I get the binaries built, did you want to give them a test to
make sure they work for you.  They should have this change, as well as the
newer CellServDB in them.

>>Troy
>>
>>Jean-Michel Barbet wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I am beginning with SL and found that the network test based on wget
>>>in /etc/init.d/afs fails with most sites, preventing afs client to
>>>start although it would work...
>>>
>>>For example, incoming TCP to port 7000 on the afs servers if filtered
>>>on the IN2P3 site. It fails on the CERN as well.
>>>
>>>Somebody noticed this also ?
>>>
>>>Should this network test be done in another manner... ?
>>>
>>>Jean-Michel BARBET.
>>>
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