[329] in Moira
The Sky is Falling
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (haynes@cats.ucsc.edu)
Fri Jul 26 12:50:05 1991
To: bug-moira@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 91 09:49:31 PDT
From: haynes@cats.ucsc.edu <haynes@cats.UCSC.EDU>
last night our machine running Moira crashed. This should never happen
but it does all the time. I suspect this is the reason that DCM generated
zero-size credentials files; at least I can't see any other reason. So
all of a sudden after the next DCM run nobody can attach any lockers.
I notice that the hesiod.sh script includes a check for zero-length files
in the tar archive and bombs if one happens. Would it make sense to
include a similar check in the nfs.sh script?
I spent a couple of late-night hours debugging before I realized we had
zero-length credentials files. Maybe we don't have error logging as it
should be; and I'll know better next time; but I wonder if we could
make the message given to the user distinguish between Kerberos
authentication failure and can't find the user in the credentials
file?
