[12670] in Athena Bugs
Layered_athena/autoupdate/etc
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Wed Sep 28 19:46:55 1994
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 19:46:43 EDT
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Well, toxicwaste, which was running a 7.6 layered athena release
decided it wanted to autoupdate today. Well, it didn't work! In the
process of destroying itself (it destroyed its srvtab as well as many
other things!) I was finally able to break into it (since the root
shell no longer existed) and re-install with layered_athena 7.7
FYI: toxicwaste is a DEC 5000/200 running Ultrix 4.3. It is running:
an AFS server: I had to restart that).
a Kerberos server: /usr/athena/etc/k* were not in place, and
no symlinks were existant!
A mail server (I had to re-hack my sendmail.cf which was
destroyed).
a login server (I have to replace the srvtab, still!)
and probably some other things which I can't remember right
now!
Another bug: /etc/athena/shutdown_notify did not exist -- I had to
link it myself.
Anyways, I manually changed the autoupdate to 0 in the config file, so
hopefully this wont happen again... I'm a little miffed about this,
since I remember explicity telling it _NOT_ to autoupdate! I guess
that I am now a beta-tester of 7.7 layered_athena, whether I want to
or not. Sigh.
Thanks!
-derek
PS: hopefully this will help in the case of other people having
similar problems in the future..
