TaDa (or almost ;-)) ! It is there: /afs/cern.ch/project/linux/dev/afs/openafs-1.3.79-1.SL.src.rpm I have been able to try it out on Fedora Core 3 (2.6.10-1.760_FC3) at home: seems it is working against our cern.ch cell with krbIV. Problems: - openafs-krb5 have not been built (compile errors ?) -> I used the same package we had in 1.2.11 - IŽll try to have a look at this later .. (option krb5support defined as 0 in spec file for now) - so far it hasn been built on x86_64/ia64/ia32e (but in *theory* it shall..): please try on SL 4 ... - I havenŽt really checked much ... build *looks* complete .. but I could be wrong ;-) Changes (to 1.2.11): - removed most of patches (not needed anymore) - changed init script to use rxdebug on port 7002 instead of wget on 7000 (yes, as Stephan pointed out: this gives 20 secs timeout per dead server: but looking at CellServDB most cells have 3 DB servers: if all are dead = 60 seconds timeout = but AFS will not run anyway ... so worst case is 40 seconds I would say: I believe it is acceptable and - this is the solution which really checks for AFS DB server - unlike wget ) - little bit of tweaking in spec file: it shall work for 2.4 and 2.6 kernels builds (not checked!) - options used for configure: ./configure --with-afs-sysname=i386_linux26 --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --with-linux-kernel-headers=/lib/modules/${kernel}/build --enable-redhat-buildsys --enable-bitmap-later --enable-bos-restricted-mode --enable-fast-restart --enable-bos-new-config --enable-supergroups --enable-largefile-fileserver --enable-transarc-paths - CACHESIZE is set to AUTOMATIC in /etc/sysconfig/afs (if your cache is not on separate partitions startup script will abort and ask you to adjust this setting first) Changes that we could consider for production builds: - move afsd from /usr/vice/etc/ to /usr/sbin/ - move cacheinfo, CellAlias, CellServDB, SuidCells and ThisCell from /usr/vice/etc/ to /etc/openafs/ - integrate killafs from /usr/vice/etc/ into /etc/init.d/afs - move cache from /usr/vice/etc/cache to /var/cache/openafs/ (and provide symlink /usr/vice/etc/cache -> /var/cache/openafs/ in openafs-compat package) I believe the above would be more consistent with filesystem layout on linux ... (and it requires just few adjustments in spec file , init.d script and /etc/sysconfig/afs script) Please tell me what is your opinion on that. Enjoy (and tell me if it worked for you, please) Jarek (@Home)