[OpenAFS-devel] 1.2.9 bug

[Quanah Gibson-Mount]

--On Thursday, April 24, 2003 3:09 PM -0700 Alexei Kosut 
<akosut@cs.stanford.edu> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 01:34:14PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> And to be even more precise, our cell name is ir.stanford.edu, and under
>> previous versions of the AFS client with -dynroot -afsdb, /afs/ir and
>> /afs/.ir just showed up and worked.  Now, they don't;
>> /afs/ir.stanford.edu is there (and /afs/.ir.stanford.edu) but not the
>> names without the domains.
>
> I have no idea what might be causing this, but you could work around
> it by putting "ir.stanford.edu ir" into /usr/vice/etc/CellAlias.  That
> would have the added benefit of making /afs/ir and /afs/.ir work
> correctly on systems where stanford.edu is (intentionally) not in the
> domain search list.
>
> (This is, in fact, what we've always done with our Mac OS X client, so
> that /afs/ir works correctly for people who use their Mac off-campus,
> etc...  Also because afsdb isn't yet viable on Mac OS X.)

Thanks!  I've updated our build system to always install this file.

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
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Stanford University
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