[OpenAFS] Force host CPS refresh?

[Jeffrey Hutzelman]

On Tuesday, November 18, 2003 15:07:50 -0500 Ray Link <rlink+@pitt.edu> 
wrote:

> Is there a way to force a fileserver to refresh the CPS for a client
> machine?  Waiting 0-2 hours for the automatic refresh is a pain, and
> restarting the fileserver is not an option right now.
>
> In case you are wondering:  Yes, this is to reflect a change in an IP
> ACL.  No, moving the volume to a different server didn't work, most
> likely because it is replicated.

The fileserver does support an operation to do this, but in fileserver 
versions prior to 1.2.9, it is buggy and will cause the server to crash.
You can find a 'flushcps' program which calls this RPC in

/afs/cs.cmu.edu/misc/afstools/src/util/flushcps.c

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