[OpenAFS] help: klog: error reading cell database

[Patrick Gardner]

Derrick J Brashear wrote:

> On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Patrick Gardner wrote:
>
>> I am running debian testing with kernel 2.4.27, and am having a 
>> problem using openafs as a normal user. I have compiled and installed 
>> openafs-modules-source, and installed openafs-client, 
>> libpam-openafs-session, etc., and the module loads and the daemons 
>> start fine at startup. As root, I can then run klog and log in to the 
>> AFS server without a problem, but as a normal user, I get this error 
>> message:
>>
>> klog: error reading cell database Can't get local cell name!
>>
>> This seems to be a permissions problem, but I don't know where: I've 
>> chmoded CellServDB and ThisCell in /etc/openafs but that didn't work.
>
>
> strace klog and see what files it's actually trying to read?
>
Ahah! Got it -- as root klog looks for /etc/openafs, which is 
auto-created at install, but as normal user it looks for 
/usr/local/etc/openafs, which is NOT. Having copied CellServDB and 
ThisCell over there, all is well.

Many thanks.