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(fwd) Re: Problem with redhat-athena 5.2
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Tue Jan 26 12:13:21 1999
To: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date: 26 Jan 1999 12:13:02 -0500
I just noticed that the athena-filesystem package does this:
if [ -x /bin/athena/machtype ]; then
ATHENA_SYS=`/bin/athena/machtype -S`
else
ATHENA_SYS=i386_linux3
fi
srvd=/afs/sipb.mit.edu/system/${ATHENA_SYS}/srvd-8.2
Do you notice the problem with this? In particular if an upgrade is
happening??? If /bin/athena/machtype already exists (from a previous
install) then /srvd will get linked to the wrong place, because
ATHENA_SYS will be pointing to the wrong place.
Perhaps this symlink should be created by /etc/rc.d/init.d/athena?
Or, better yet, we might just want to make a hesiod system pack name.
-derek
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To: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Subject: Re: Problem with redhat-athena 5.2
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 22:42:53 EST
From: "Mukund T. Vengalattore" <mukund@MIT.EDU>
Hi,
I booted into single user mode and checked the following..
/srvd exists and is linked to /afs/sipb.mit.edu/system/i386-linux2/srvd-8.2
and /etc/athena/version exists (and says
'Athena RVD (linux) Version 8.2.0 Mon Oct 5 16:27:15 EDT 1998)..
Is there anything else that could be wrong?
Thanks,
Mukund
|> Sounds like you don't have /srvd symlinked properly. Boot into
|> single-user mode and make sure /srvd exists.
|>
|> Another possible problem is that there is no /etc/athena/version --
|> make sure that file exists. If not, send mail to linux-dev, because
|> that would be a bug in the installation.
|>
|> -derek
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