[496] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
Re: X11R5 and AFS [Answer]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (paw@rigel.dartmouth.edu)
Mon Dec 16 12:04:11 1991
To: info-afs@transarc.com
In-Reply-To: (Your message of Mon, 16 Dec 91 11:10:32 EST.)
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 91 11:16:33 +22322538
From: paw@rigel.dartmouth.edu
I've heard from two people already answering my X11R5/AFS question -
thanks!
Josh Osborne writes:
> There are 2 problems with fs & AFS (well more then 2, but at least 2 probs
> with running both).
>
> One is that it has the same name as AFS's fs. This is not a problem.
> No user needs to run fs. You should just have it started by rc.local
> (or inetd, if it can be started that way... I'll have to check), and just
> not put it in the users path. No big deal.
>
> The other problem is that both it and some AFS service uses port 7000.
> This is more obnixious, esp since the services file is managed by someone
> (the NIC?). Anyway to solve this one you have to put the line:
>
> port = 6060
>
> in the /usr/local/X11R5/lib/fs/config (or whereever you keep this file, real
ly
> you should miodify the skel one in the source dir). Oh, and you can change
> port 6060 to something else, but I like to keep it in the 6000's, but not
> too low (6000-6010 & 6100-6110 are reserved for X servers & X itself could
> really use 6000-6099 and 6100-6199 if you had a need, anyway you want at
> least 6001 free for xmon or xscope).
>
> To get X server to use it just set the font path to something like
> tcp/vortex.eng.umd.edu:6060/all...
Thanks also to Dan Lovinger at CMU (who suggests "6010" as the
port).
Pat
