[OpenAFS] Installing OpenAFS on RH7.0

Derek Atkins warlord@MIT.EDU
15 Apr 2001 23:58:47 -0400


What are the contents of:
	/usr/afs/etc/CellServDB
	/usr/vice/etc/CellServDB

Is DNS working?

-derek

"Timothy J. Wood" <tjw@omnigroup.com> writes:

>    The kaserver is not running.  The bos restart didn't do anything but 
> put more log files in /usr/afs/logs saying the same thing as before:
> 
> [root@afs1 logs]# bos restart afs1 -all -noauth
> [root@afs1 logs]# more AuthLog
> /usr/afs/bin/kaserver: problems with host name Ubik init failed
> l database.
> Sun Jan  5 23:02:05 1997 Using level crypt for Ubik connections.
> Sun Jan  5 23:02:05 1997 ubik: primary address 127.0.0.1 does not exist
> 
> 
> -tim
> 
> 
> On Sunday, April 15, 2001, at 08:39  PM, Charles Clancy wrote:
> 
> > Do a "ps -ef | grep kaserver" to see if the kaserver is running.
> > Creating the services doesn't mean it actually starts the server 
> > process.
> > Each of the different servers is an independed process, and the 
> > bos-server
> > (Basic Overseer Server) basically just is there to stop and start them.
> > You might want to do a "bos restart afs1" to make sure all the AFS 
> > server
> > processes are running.
> >
> > _______________________________________________________
> >       Charles Clancy -- mgrtcc@cs.rose-hulman.edu
> > Senior UNIX Administrator, Rose-Hulman Computer Science
> >
> > On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Timothy J. Wood wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >>    I'm in the process of installing a test AFS 1.0.3 server on a clean
> >> RH7.0 box.  I'm following the IBM Quick Beginnings instructions and am
> >> running into the fact that these instructions don't apply 100% to the
> >> OpenAFS RPMs.
> >>
> >>    I have /usr/{afs,vice}/etc/{ThisCell,CellServDB} set up correctly 
> >> now
> >> (well, I think so -- the /usr/afs versions are symlinks to the 
> >> /usr/vice
> >> versions).
> >>
> >> [root@afs1 db]# bos listhosts afs1.omnigroup.com -noauth
> >> Cell name is omnigroup.com
> >>      Host 1 is afs1.omnigroup.com
> >>
> >>    I then created the databases with:
> >>
> >> bos create afs1.omnigroup.com kaserver simple /usr/afs/bin/kaserver
> >> -cell omnigroup.com -noauth
> >> bos create afs1.omnigroup.com buserver simple /usr/afs/bin/buserver
> >> -cell omnigroup.com -noauth
> >> bos create afs1.omnigroup.com ptserver simple /usr/afs/bin/ptserver
> >> -cell omnigroup.com -noauth
> >> bos create afs1.omnigroup.com vlserver simple /usr/afs/bin/vlserver
> >> -cell omnigroup.com -noauth
> >>
> >>    And I have:
> >>
> >> [root@afs1 db]# ls /usr/afs/db
> >> bdb.DB0     kaserver.DB0     prdb.DB0     vldb.DB0
> >> bdb.DBSYS1  kaserver.DBSYS1  prdb.DBSYS1  vldb.DBSYS1
> >>
> >>    Now, when I try to follow the next step, to create the 'afs' user, 
> >> kas
> >> hangs for a while and then complains about not being able to connect to
> >> a server (probably kaserver).
> >>
> >>    The instructions implied that the 'bos create' commands would 
> >> actually
> >> start some processes, but they did not.
> >>
> >>    In the log directory, I have an 'AuthLog' that says:
> >>
> >> /usr/afs/bin/kaserver: problems with host name Ubik init failed
> >> l database.
> >> Sun Jan  5 22:33:17 1997 Using level crypt for Ubik connections.
> >> Sun Jan  5 22:33:17 1997 ubik: primary address 127.0.0.1 does not exist
> >>
> >>    Do I need to put 127.0.0.1 (loopback) in the CellServDB instead of 
> >> the
> >> real IP of my server?  A bunch of the logs for the other servers have
> >> the same sort of error (gosh, it would have been nice if it had given 
> >> me
> >> the error from the 'bos create' command :)
> >>
> >>    Thanks!
> >>
> >> -tim
> >>
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