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Re: Proceeding with new-rosebud

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karl Ramm)
Thu Jul 16 10:12:33 1998

To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>, sipb-afsreq@MIT.EDU
From: Karl Ramm <kcr@MIT.EDU>
Date: 16 Jul 1998 10:12:22 -0400
In-Reply-To: John Hawkinson's message of Mon, 13 Jul 1998 11:11:02 EDT

John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU> writes:
> 
> It was suggested by jweiss that it was necessary to rm a file
> prior to starting the fileservers to make this function. While this
> sounded vaguely familiar at the time, I can't find any documentation
> of it now, and a cursory glance at source didn't yield anything.

if you're substituting in a new server for an old one, you need to either
copy over or remove /usr/afs/local/sysid.  (if you remove it, the vlserver
does a surprising facsimile of the right thing)

kcr

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