Coda File System

RE: Installing coda

From: <josef.schwarz_at_bt.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 14:55:14 -0000
> From: Ariyo Nugroho [mailto:ariyo_at_ebdesk.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 10:23 AM
>
> 3. When I install a Coda client by running rpm on lwp, rpc, rvm, and
> coda-client packages, do I need to run any venus script? Does 
> the rpm do
> all hard-work setup?

After having installed the coda-client package, you have to either start venus-setup or edit venus.conf.
"venus-setup servername 20000"
has the same effect as editing venus.conf that it looks like this:
...
realm="servername"
cacheblocks="20000"
...

Quoting Jan:

> From: Jan Harkes [mailto:jaharkes_at_cs.cmu.edu]
> Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 11:27 PM
>
> Don't care too much about venus-setup. It hardly does anything useful
> since 6.0.0.
> 
> You can also just copy the /etc/coda/venus.conf.ex file to
> /etc/coda/venus.conf and set the cachesize= configuration option.
> 
> The name you pass to venus setup is only used as the 'default' realm
> option for commands like clog and cpasswd. Venus never uses it
> internally.
Received on 2003-11-04 09:56:59