Hi Sean,

On Sep 17, 2013, at 14:16 , Sean Murray wrote:

> As I read it the afs startup script in /etc/rc.d/init.d/afs does not permit the
> case of a cell not being in the CellServDB file even if you enable ENABLE_AFSDB
> to append the -afsdb command line switch.

yes, that check has been there ~forever.

If it's a problem for you, you can either provide a CellServDB with your cell included or remove the check from the init script.

If you think this should all be done differently, please let us know how exactly you think it should work. That's rather a change for SL7 though.

Best regards,
	Stephan

> It looks like the line 213 will block it from working ?
> CELL gets defined as the dnsname correctly but then the script refuses to start
> as the CELL is not in the CellServDB, causing the script to bomb out on line 218
> 
> Offending function is this :
> 
> 195 check_thiscell() {
> 196     CELL=
> 197     if [ -s /usr/vice/etc/ThisCell ] ; then
> 198         CELL="$(cat /usr/vice/etc/ThisCell)"
> 199         if [ -n "$CELL" ]; then
> 200             grep -w -q -s ">$CELL" /usr/vice/etc/CellServDB
> 201             if [ $? -ne 0 ] ; then
> 202                 echo afs: $CELL from ThisCell is not in CellServDB.  Not starting. 1>&2
> 203                 return 1
> 204             fi
> 205             return 0
> 206         fi
> 207     fi
> 208     CELL=`dnsdomainname`;
> 209     if [ $? -ne 0 -o -z "$CELL" ] ; then
> 210         echo afs: No cell defined. Trying to figure it out failed. Not starting. 1>&2
> 211         return 1
> 212     fi
> 213     grep -w -q -s ">$CELL" /usr/vice/etc/CellServDB
> 214     if [ $? -ne 0 ] ; then
> 215         echo afs: No cell defined. Trying to figure it out failed. Not starting. 1>&2
> 216         return 1
> 217     fi
> 218     echo "$CELL" > /usr/vice/etc/ThisCell && chmod 0644 /usr/vice/etc/ThisCell
> 219     if [ $? -ne 0 ] ; then
> 220         echo afs: No cell defined. Trying to configure "$CELL" failed. Not starting. 1>&2
> 221         return 1
> 222     fi
> 223     echo afs: Warning: No cell was defined. Autoconfigured "$CELL". 1>&2
> 224 }
> 

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