Coda File System

question + comment + doc patches

From: <braam_at_cs.cmu.edu>
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 13:28:05 -0500 (EST)
Thanks! I put it in.

Peter


Jeff Breidenbach writes:
 > 
 > With Peter's good help, I seem to have a working 4.6.5 Coda server and
 > client. I have high hopes to, someday soon, actually mount a
 > volume. At least a df returns
 > 
 > Filesystem         1024-blocks  Used Available Capacity Mounted on
 > /dev/hda2             925095  605100   272202     69%   /
 > /dev/hdc10            302463     182   286659      0%   /vice
 > /dev/hdc11           3365574    4161  3187333      0%   /vicepa
 > Coda                 9000000       0  9000000      0%   /coda
 > 
 > Question:
 >  It is not obvious to me how or where one adds a password for
 >  clog to authenticate against. Chapter 11 of the administration
 >  manual talks about adding users, but nowhere do we drop in
 >  passwords. And authentication with clog seems to demand a password.
 >  I think another person on the mailing list faces the same question.
 > 
 > Comment:
 >  After a few failed attempts with clog to authenticate, I too get
 >  errors filling up the screen, with
 >  [12:59:03]SocketListener:
 >   "/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/coda-4.6.5/coda-src/rpc2/sl.c", line 421:
 >   DecodePacket(RPC2_BUSY): bad bind seqno
 >  It seems easy to reproduce, but I don't know exactly what triggers it.
 > 
 > Documentation patches:
 >  I've noted the sections in the manual that gave me the most trouble,
 >  hopefully to make things easier for the next person. I hope this
 >  feedback is helpful.
 > 
 > (1) Chapter 7 of the adinistration guide
 > 
 > -For Linux:
 > -
 > -/etc/rc.d/init.d/update.init start
 > -/etc/rc.d/init.d/auth2.init start
 > 
 > +For Linux:
 > +
 > +/etc/rc.d/init.d/update.init start
 > +/etc/rc.d/init.d/auth2.init start
 > +/etc/rc.d/init.d/codasrv.init start
 > 
 > 
 > (2) Also in chapter 7
 > 
 > -The last thing that must be done if an SCM server was being setup so
 > -it will function is to create the root volume you specified in
 > -vice-setup to be mounted by the client software:
 > -
 > -       createvol_rep coda:root E0000100 /vicepa
 > 
 > +One final step is needed to make the SCM server function. Use
 > +the root volume you specified in vice-setup in place of 
 > +your-root-volume. This step creates the volume, which will 
 > +be mountable by the client software.
 > +
 > +       createvol_rep your-root-volume E0000100 /vicepa
 > 
 > (3) In chapter 11, there are two typos
 > 
 > - Execute % pwd2pdb -p /vice/db/user.coda -g /vice/db/groups.coda > /vice/db/vice.pdb
 > + Execute % pwd2pdb -u /vice/db/user.coda -g /vice/db/group.coda > /vice/db/vice.pdb
 > 
Received on 1998-11-12 13:38:42