[498] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
Re: X11R5 and AFS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stripes (or Josh, if you must))
Mon Dec 16 13:53:11 1991
To: paw@rigel.dartmouth.edu (Pat Wilson)
Cc: info-afs@transarc.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 16 Dec 91 13:46:07 GMT."
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 91 11:10:32 -0500
From: "Stripes (or Josh, if you must)" <stripes@eng.umd.edu>
Pat Wilson said:
>One of the reasons (there are many) that I haven't installed X11R5 on our
>system is because of the (potential?) naming conflict between R5's "fontserver
}"
>(fs) and AFS's "fileserver" (fs). I must admit that I've not looked into
>this more than to note that it might be a problem - is it? If so, what can
>be done?
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, really
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...
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