[45974] in Hotline Meeting
malformed CellServDB file
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Whitson)
Wed Nov 25 03:38:11 1998
To: hotline@MIT.EDU
Cc: ops@MIT.EDU
From: Mike Whitson <mwhitson@MIT.EDU>
Date: 25 Nov 1998 03:38:09 -0500
In the process of updating the Athena CellServDB file from Transarc's
master copy, I managed to put in place a malformed file for a short
period of time. I corrected the problem quickly, but there is a
chance that some clients may have copied the malformed file to their
local disk as part of their automatic reactivation process.
If all goes well, those clients should notice the fixed version and
re-copy the file. However, if you do come across a non-functioning
workstation which is displaying logs like this:
Can't properly parse host line "." in configuration file /usr/vice/etc/CellServDB
Could not process files in configuration directory (/usr/vice/etc).
then rebooting the workstation will fix the problem.
I'm really sorry for the inconvenience.
Mike Whitson
MIT/IS Athena Server Operations
