[OpenAFS-devel] Start script tidbits

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Brett Johnson wrote:

> Originally I was going to use the udebug program to do the ${TESTME} part, but udebug always seems to return 0.  When I pointed it at a dummy IP, it printed out a -1 error, but still returned 0.  Is that suppose to be???

I have a program "fsping" from Jeff Hutzelman which I use to test for
up-ness since what you really want is the fileserver to be up and
servicing requests.

> Now, I guess the big question is can something like this be assimilated
> into the main distribution?  maybe as an option or something?  Not so
> much as deleting the cache on ever start, but waiting until the server
> is there before the client starts?  Typically when my AFS client does a
> "half start" it will not do a full start later without a reboot (this is
> why I prefer all or nothing starts).

Perhaps in the 1.1 releases; I'm trying to get 1.0.4 out the door now, and
the client should be much happier on Linux systems.

-D