[OpenAFS-devel] afsd: Error -1 in basic initialization.

[Jeffrey Hutzelman]

On Saturday, June 17, 2006 08:47:58 AM -0700 Chris Mattmann 
<chris.mattmann@jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:

> Hi Harald,
>
>  Thanks for your reply! Here are my replies to your questions:
>>
>>> 4. ln -s /usr/vice/etc/afsd /etc/init.d/afsd
>>
>> Is this the binary afsd? Is that as it should be? Normally I start
>> with the rc.afs script.
>
> That fixed it!! I was sym linking the wrong file to my /etc/init.d
> directory! I went online and found SOURCES/opeafs-client.init for Fedora
> Core 3 for openafs-1.4.1 and then I copied that to /etc/init.d/afs and
> then executed:
>
> sudo /sbin/service afs start

You should not have had to do any such thing.
The script you need is installed as part of the openafs-client RPM.
All you needed to do was

/sbin/service openafs-client start

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