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Re: Starting a db server on reynelda

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karl Ramm)
Wed Jul 24 20:07:20 1996

To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: sipb-afsreq@MIT.EDU
From: Karl Ramm <kcr@MIT.EDU>
Date: 24 Jul 1996 20:05:25 -0400
In-Reply-To: Greg Hudson's message of Wed, 24 Jul 1996 19:20:04 -0400

Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:

> 		- Add reynelda to the Athena CellServDB and send mail
> 		  to the appropriate Transarc list announcing the
> 		  change.

We should probably delay this until after we start the database server on
reynelda; as long as it's not sync site, we'll be fine. 

> 		- Start running db servers on reynelda.  I don't know
> 		  the full procedure for adding a db server
> 		  (specifically, getting the existing vlserver and
> 		  ptserver information onto the new server), so I have
> 		  to learn that or someone else needs to do this part.

Basically, you start the db server processes with an appropriate
/usr/afs/etc/CellServDB and it does the rest.

> 		- After most Athena client machines have updated to
> 		  the new CellServDB (a week or so), force an election
> 		  to make reynelda the sync site.  This may happen on
> 		  its own sooner than we want it to.

It will happen during the sunday restart, for instance.

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