[Fwd: Re: [OpenAFS] 2 problems for me newbie...]

Horst Birthelmer horst@riback.net
Thu, 16 Sep 2004 16:20:57 +0200


On Sep 16, 2004, at 3:27 PM, Lars Schimmer wrote:
>
> Hmnm. Maybe I wasn't clear enough.
> We set up afs and setup a volume for every users home.
> And all these homes are mountet in a volume namend home.
> And Yes I want to release ALL these home-volumes nested in the one
> "home" volume.
> This way we got RO copies of home and they are fast reactivated in case
> of breakdown of the original home-volume.
> So for now  for i in `ls /afs/cell/home/`;do vos release -id home.$i;
> done DOES release all volumes we've got for homes, nothing more should
> be done. But THIS I want to be done automatic without getting a token,
> etc...
> I know with bos install I can create a "cronjob" within the bosserver
> for e.g. release some volumes (we release 3 volumes this way). But how
> can we release all volumes with the name home.* within these cronjobs 
> of
> the bosserver?

bos install and bos create are NO cronjobs.
'bos install' is for copying files to the server and 'bos create' 
creates another 'server instance' on your server.


Horst