[11111] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 7.6L: lookup and/or vos and/or the motd
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (yandros@MIT.EDU)
Wed Sep 29 22:41:02 1993
From: yandros@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 93 22:40:49 EDT
To: "Rich Tauriello" <rptaurie@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[11110] in Athena Bugs"
Hi there...
The reason lookup doesn't user `fs whereis' is that fs whereis goes
through the fileserver to determine the relevant info. If the
fileserver in question is down, `fs whereis' will timeout (after 2
minutes, I believe). The script (which was written to be used in the
event of a possible outage) instead tries to use a vos command that
consults an AFS database process, thus avoiding the fileserver. (you
might have noticed that it does some not-so-pretty things - this is
why).
As for needing vos compiled on the suns, I agree wholeheartedly. :-)
chad
