[OpenAFS-port-darwin] configuring openafs under MacOS 10

[Shantonu Sen]

I worked on this a bit this weekend. One issue I came across is that I'd 
like each cell to have a checkbox to indicate wether you want it "active" 
or not. This will be a temporary hack to keep the Finder from going crazy,
  and will take "inactive" cells out of the CellServDB.

However, it would appear that the CellServDB does not have a comment 
format, so it will be necessary to store inactive cells in another file. 
Possible scenarios:

1) If a user deactives a cell, just drop it entirely and keep no backups. 
The user is forced to manually add it back in.
2) Store an xml/plist version of the "full" CellServDB, with cells 
appropriately marked active or inactive. The real CellServDB is generated 
from the cells marked active.
3) Store the full CellServDB in CellServDB-format as "/var/db/openafs/etc/
CellServDB.full". This will include both active and inactive cells, and 
the inactive ones can be determined by seeing what *doesn't* exist in the 
"/var/db/openafs/etc/CellServDB".
4) Store something like above on root's home directory. hmmm.

I'm also modelling this as a standalone application, since the Preferences 
API isn't public currently, so we should just make a go of it now.

Thoughts?
Shantonu

On Saturday, June 2, 2001, at 09:57 PM, Garance A Drosihn wrote:

> Actually, I expect this isn't hard to write, for someone with
> Cocoa experience.  I had a fair amount of NeXTSTEP programming
> experience, and once I get my hands on the O'Reilly book on
> Cocoa (which I have already ordered...), I might be able to
> write up something.