[OpenAFS] This must be simple, but...

Nickolai Zeldovich kolya@MIT.EDU
Sat, 25 May 2002 12:10:09 -0400


> Can anyone suggest a method for easily creating an "alias" (usually a 
> symlink in root.afs) when mounting a cell using -dynroot?

Just create a CellAlias file in addition to a CellServDB file, with
contents like the following to make "foo" an alias for "foo.bar.com":

  foo.bar.com    foo

The CellAlias file goes into the same directory as CellServDB.

-- kolya