[OpenAFS] Distro vs. @sys. Round 1: FIGHT!

[Brandon Allbery]

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On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Jeff Blaine <jblaine@kickflop.net> wrote:

> We had trouble with this once in the past. We solved it by
> forcing the newer machines to set a custom sysname in afs.rc (like
> amd64_linux26_v2).
>
> Any other options, or is the standard thing everyone does?
>

We used distribution/version specific sysnames at CMU, with the default as
a fallback; so something like i386_rhel6, i386_rhel, i386_linux26 for the
sysname list on RHEL6.  (Practically, there might be one based on glibc
version in there too at a higher priority than the distribution one.)

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brandon s allbery                                      allbery.b@gmail.com
wandering unix systems administrator (available)     (412) 475-9364 vm/sms

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<div dir=3D"ltr">On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Jeff Blaine <span dir=3D=
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We had trouble with this once in the past. We solved it by<br>
forcing the newer machines to set a custom sysname in afs.rc (like<br>
amd64_linux26_v2).<br>
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Any other options, or is the standard thing everyone does?<br></blockquote>=
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