[45672] in Hotline Meeting
Re: log 125166
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Mon Nov 2 16:41:28 1998
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Barry M Stoelzel <barrys@MIT.EDU>
Cc: ops@MIT.EDU, hotline@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 02 Nov 1998 15:27:51 EST."
<199811022027.PAA06452@tyr.mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1998 16:41:26 EST
> Being relatively new to Athena, I have a couple of questions as far as the
> installation goes and saving some configuration data. For example, we have 6
> external drives attached to bloom and the data on a couple of these disks is
> important, so I'd want to make sure the vfstab gets backed up, right?
Yeah, saving /etc/vfstab should be sufficient. Assuming thatthe
machine is already an Athena machine, and all you are doing is
reinstallinf the software, you should be able to just re-install the
vfstab file after the re-install.
> What about kerberos, would I need to request a new srvtab or can I just copy
> this off?"
If the machine is keeping the same name you can save the srvtab. If
it is gettign a new name you'll need a new srvtab. (The srvtab does
not depend on the IP address, so changing that should be fine.)
Remember tho that the srvtab contains secret data, and should not be
copied over the net in the clear (this includes saving it into AFS.)
One way to do this is to use rcp -x or scp to copy the
srvtab to another machine that you trust, do the re-install and copy
it back, and then kdestroy the copy on the other machine.
Jonathon
