Along the same lines, if there is any new AFS errata for SL 3.07, it'd be 
nice to replace the 'wget' command in init script by the rxdebug command 
used in openafs 1.4.1. 'wget' is a problem when the port is firewalled but 
the router/firewall doesn't answer a connection refused (to avoid DoS).

Michel

--On jeudi 28 septembre 2006 12:02 +0200 Michel Jouvin 
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Troy,
>
> I'd suggest, in the new release, to add a test in the startup script for
> a file ThisCell with an empty line (currently only an empty file is
> tested). Here is the proposed fix :
>
> --- /tmp/afs    2006-09-28 11:58:00.000000000 +0200
> +++ /etc/init.d/afs     2006-09-28 11:58:40.000000000 +0200
> @@ -83,6 +83,11 @@
>                 return 1
>         fi
>         CELL="$(cat /usr/vice/etc/ThisCell)"
> +        if [ -z "$CELL" ]
> +        then
> +                echo afs: ThisCell is empty.  Not starting. 1>&2
> +                return 1
> +        fi
>         grep -w -q -s ">$CELL" /usr/vice/etc/CellServDB
>         if [ $? -ne 0 ] ; then
>                 echo afs: $CELL from ThisCell is not in CellServDB.  Not
> starting. 1>&2
>
>
> Michel
>
> --On mercredi 27 septembre 2006 18:45 +0200 Michel Jouvin
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Troy,
>>
>> Thank you very much. It works !
>>
>> Michel
>>
>> --On mercredi 27 septembre 2006 09:28 -0500 Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Michel,
>>>
>>> They are now in the testing area.
>>> As I said earlier, when we release S.L. 4.4, we'll move the openafs
>>> 1.4.1 packages into the errata.  That hopefully will be towards the end
>>> of next week.
>>>
>>> For now you can install them by hand from
>>> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/40rolling/testing/x86_64
>>> /R PMS/openafs
>>>
>>> rpm -Uvh
>>> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/40rolling/testing/x86_64
>>> /R
>>> PMS/openafs/kernel-module-openafs-2.6.9-34.ELlargesmp-1.4.1-0.11.SL.x86
>>> _6 4.rpm
>>>
>>> or by yum
>>>
>>>   yum --enablerepo=sl-testing install
>>> kernel-module-openafs-2.6.9-34.ELlargesmp
>>>
>>> Troy
>>>
>>> Michel Jouvin wrote:
>>>> Currently I am still running the original SL 4.3 kernel, 2.6.9-34.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> Michel
>>>>
>>>> --On mercredi 27 septembre 2006 08:39 -0500 Troy Dawson
>>>> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Michel Jouvin wrote:
>>>>>> Is a RPM available to provide kernel-module-openafs for largesmp
>>>>>> kernels in SL 4.3 (i386 and/or x86_64) ? largesmp kernel seems to be
>>>>>> installed by default on (Opteron?) SMP machines.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks in advance for any help.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Michel
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> I just tested my build scripts.  It seems that largesmp for x86_64 and
>>>>> hugemem for i386 don't build with our openafs 1.4.0 rpm, but do build
>>>>> with out openafs 1.4.1 rpm.
>>>>> We haven't pushed openafs 1.4.1 out to the errata yet, because I was
>>>>> waiting until we released S.L. 4.4 ... just incase we had any last
>>>>> minute changes to it.
>>>>> openafs 1.4.1 is in our testing area though, and I'll put the kernel
>>>>> modules I just built up there.
>>>>> Is there any particular kernel you need, or just the latest one?
>>>>> (When we release openafs as an errata, we'll have all the kernels,
>>>>> but I currently haven't built them all yet.)
>>>>>
>>>>> Troy
>>>
>>> --
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