[4789] in Kerberos
Re: kinit problem in Kerberos V5.4
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave McGuire)
Mon Mar 13 19:44:41 1995
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 1995 19:30:59 -0500
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire@rocinante.digex.net>
To: mike@fionn.lbl.gov (Michael Helm)
Cc: kerberos@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Re: kinit problem in Kerberos V5.4 (Michael Helm)
On March 13, you wrote:
> You may be using the tmpfs file system on SunOS. There's a problem
> with this (locking fcntl call, I think). If you're doing tmpfs, you can
> either change the source to direct caches to some non-tmpfs file system,
> perhaps /usr/tmp, or maybe provide a SunOS-specific solution. Or
> stop using tmpfs on the key server.
I believe it is a file locking problem. It's not only important on
the key server, though. We tried tmpfs (as /tmp) on client machines
as well, and it broke kinit when it was writing to /tmp.
-Dave McGuire
Operations
Digital Express Group, Incorporated
mcguire@digex.net
