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Re: Ken Raeburn: Solaris athena-9.0 beta update
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Garry Zacheiss)
Wed May 23 11:41:30 2001
Message-Id: <200105231541.LAA15575@brad-majors.mit.edu>
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
cc: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>, testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 23 May 2001 10:17:37 EDT."
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Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 11:41:22 -0400
From: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
>> I have a vague recolletion that it may be possible to force the
>> kernel to reload the name_to_sysnum file, and that at one point afs
>> did this. I can't seem to find the code in front of me. It probably
>> involves a trivial loadable kernel module, which may not be where we
>> want to go.
Installing our own custom kernel module on machines for this purpose
doesn't seem like something we want to do. I'll look into seeing if
there's some other way to get things working correctly.
Garry
