[OpenAFS] dumb pts question

[Jeffrey Hutzelman]

On Tuesday, August 31, 2004 14:20:50 -0400 Craig Huckabee 
<huck@spawar.navy.mil> wrote:

>
> Warning, dumb question ahead...
>
> Is pts supposed to be AFSDB record aware or is it supposed to still
> require a valid CellServDB file (fully populated with server->ip
> mappings) ?  Couldn't find a reference that explicitly says which tools
> should or should not know about those records - just mildly annoying to
> have to keep distributing out a CellServDB file.
>
> This is with 1.2.11 clients/servers on RedHat 8, Debian, & Solaris 8/9.

If you have build OpenAFS with AFSDB support, then any user-mode utility 
that uses afsconf_GetCellInfo should honor AFSDB records (of course, the 
CellServDB has priority).  This includes programs that call pr_Initialize, 
such as pts.

-- Jeffrey T. Hutzelman (N3NHS) <jhutz+@cmu.edu>
   Sr. Research Systems Programmer
   School of Computer Science - Research Computing Facility
   Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, PA