[gentoo-dev] "bug fixes" for AFS documentation

[gentoo-dev] "bug fixes" for AFS documentation

[Daniel Lyons]

Hi,

I just installed AFS with the help of Holger Brueckner's very nice AFS guide.
But there were a few stumbling blocks which I pointed out to Holger, but he
said he left gentoo development some months ago.  He said I should try and
point them out on this forum, so here they are:

1. Before you have started the volume server, you need to have a formatted
partition mounted at /vicepX (probably /vicepa or /vicepb), and this must have
a corresponding /etc/fdisk entry.  Otherwise, vos won't know what you're
talking about when you try to add new volumes.

2. If you're installing the server for the first time, you must run afsd after
you run the four database server processes and before you try and use fs to
modify the access control lists.  But afsd will hang if they aren't running,
and fs will report rather unhelpful errors about /afs not being in AFS until
you do.  So basically you need to run "afsd" before you do the last group of
commands (fs setacl ...)

Thanks for your time and the excellent documentation!  :)

-- 
Daniel

(* Obscenity is a crutch for inarticulate motherfuckers. *)

Re: [gentoo-dev] "bug fixes" for AFS documentation

[Michael]

I agree, the documentation needs to be updated.  Those two mistakes in the
documentation caused a bit of hairloss on my part.  What needs to be done
to fix it.  Who can update the howto?-mfairchi

> I just installed AFS with the help of Holger Brueckner's very nice AFS
> guide. But there were a few stumbling blocks which I pointed out to
> Holger, but he said he left gentoo development some months ago.  He
> said I should try and point them out on this forum, so here they are:
>