[1988] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: the current sipb linux-athena syspack has a problem?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Nygren)
Fri Jan 23 21:56:56 1998
To: Daniel Bromberg <ddaniel@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Erik Nygren <nygren@MIT.EDU>, linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 23 Jan 1998 18:37:33 EST."
<199801232337.SAA03739@furlong.mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 21:56:26 EST
From: Erik Nygren <nygren@MIT.EDU>
You're not supposed to have /bin/athena be a symlink into the syspack
in AFS. /bin/athena should be a directory containing files
(as should /etc/athena). The rationale is that things in those
directories may be needed before AFS has started up.
Erik
> I still don't get the logic.
>
> If /bin/athena is incomplete in the system packs, it can't be used at all,
> since you can't mush together a part-local directory and a part-athena
> directory. Everything in /srvd/bin/athena must therefore be part of the
> install package where things get put locally. /srvd/bin/athena, being
> an incomplete template, doesn't begin to be useful.
>
> *Unless* you're supposed to have a big symlink farm from the local
> /bin/athena for all the binaries that are in the syspack. Is that it?
>
> (I haven't done the install in a while; I was just switching over to
> the syspack)
