[OpenAFS] Problem in completing client setup

[Derek Atkins]

Talk to your local system admin.  Ignore the documentation.

-derek

Madhusudan Singh <chhabra@eecs.umich.edu> writes:

> Hi,
> 	I was trying to setup a symbolic link for afsws in /usr (the doc's
> suggest that I place it to /afs/engin.umich.edu/@sys/usr/afsws ). I
> understand that my sysname is i386_linux24 and this is what @sys refers
> to.
> 	However, a listing of my /afs/engin.umich.edu :
> [root@guo engin.umich.edu]# ls -l
> total 25
> lrwxr-xr-x    1 496      root           12 Feb  3  2000 afs -> /usr/src/afs
> drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         2048 Dec 14  2000 caen
> -rw-r--r--    1 daemon   wheel          17 Feb 15  2000 cds.afs.proxy
> drwxr-xr-x    6 root     root         2048 Apr 27 12:03 class
> drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root         8192 May 14 10:34 contrib
> drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         2048 Jul 22  1999 group
> drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root         2048 Feb  2  1995 system
> drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         2048 Sep 16  1999 u
> drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Dec  8  2000 um
> drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         2048 Jul 16  1996 ummu
> lrwxr-xr-x    1 bin      root            1 Dec 13  1991 user -> u
> 
> The link afs -> /usr/src/afs is dummy. I cannot cd to it.
> 
> [root@guo engin.umich.edu]# cd afs
> bash: cd: afs: No such file or directory
> 
> I looked into the AFS implementation notes (very sketchy) and I found that
> there are three directories at this level that contain anything that looks
> like a sysname :
> 
> caen,system and um.
> 
> Their listings :
> [root@guo engin.umich.edu]# cd caen
> [root@guo caen]# ls
> ls: cds.dfs.proxy: Permission denied
> alpha_osf1   i386_nt35   rs_aix41  sun4_413    sun4c_413u1  sun4m_55
> alpha_osf20  irh_61      rs_aix42  sun4_413u1  sun4c_53     sun4u_55
> generic      lx_irh52    sgi_52    sun4_53     sun4c_54     sun_53
> hp700_ux90   pmax_ul42a  sgi_62    sun4_54     sun4c_55     sun_54
> hp700_ux905  pmax_ul43a  sgi_63    sun4_55     sun4m_413    sun_55
> hp7_1010     rs_aix31    sgi_65    sun4c_411   sun4m_413u1  sun_56
> hp7_1020     rs_aix32    src       sun4c_412   sun4m_53     sun_8
> hp_ux110     rs_aix324   sun_413   sun4c_413   sun4m_54     sunx86_55
> 
> None of these directories can be entered.
> 
> [root@guo engin.umich.edu]# cd system
> [root@guo system]# ls
> alpha_osf20  pmax_ul42a  rs_aix324  sun4c_411  sun4m_413
> generic      pmax_ul43a  sun4_411   sun4c_412  sun4m_413u1
> hp700_ux90   releases    sun4_412   sun4c_413  templates
> hp700_ux905  rs_aix32    sun4_413   sun4m_412  wsadmin
> 
> Same here.
> 
> [root@guo engin.umich.edu]# cd um
> [root@guo um]# ls
> alpha_osf1   i386_nt35   rs_aix41  sun4_413    sun4c_413u1  sun4m_55
> alpha_osf20  irh_61      rs_aix42  sun4_413u1  sun4c_53     sun4u_55
> generic      lx_irh52    sgi_52    sun4_53     sun4c_54     sun_53
> hp700_ux90   pmax_ul42a  sgi_62    sun4_54     sun4c_55     sun_54
> hp700_ux905  pmax_ul43a  sgi_63    sun4_55     sun4m_413    sun_55
> hp7_1010     rs_aix31    sgi_65    sun4c_411   sun4m_413u1  sun_56
> hp7_1020     rs_aix32    src       sun4c_412   sun4m_53     sun_8
> hp_ux110     rs_aix324   sun_413   sun4c_413   sun4m_54     sunx86_55
> 
> 
> These directories can be entered, but contain no sub directory named usr
> (I checked generic, irh_61 and lx_irh52).
> That is a bummer (#1).
> 
> Bummer #2 is that none of these names match my sysname. So, even if I were
> to descend one level down (/afs/engin.umich.edu/um/@sys/...), I would not
> get a match.
> 
> So, any ideas on how to set up this link ?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Madhusudan Singh.
> 
> 
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       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
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