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Re: setup problems
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To: Marko Sakari Asplund <Marko.Asplund@cern.ch>
Cc: arla-drinkers@stacken.kth.se
Subject: Re: setup problems
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Marko Sakari Asplund <Marko.Asplund@cern.ch> writes:
> when installing Arla v0.23 i stumbled into something that caused a lot of
> debugging in setting up Arla. if this problem isn't documented, would it
> be possible to add a description and a workaround for it somewhere in Arla
> documentation (e.g. the INSTALL file)? here's my problem:
>
> the Arla configuration program supports the --prefix option. when
> compiling and installing Arla in a non-standard location (e.g.
> /usr/local/arla) the Kerberos (kth-krb4) binaries are unable to find the
> Arla cell (ThisCell, TheseCells) and possibly other configuration files.
> in my case an AFS token couldn't be obtained because afslog (automatically
> run by kauth) was unable to find the right cell name. a solution is to
> install Arla in /usr/arla or to link /usr/arla to the Arla installation
> directory.
I did the following fix to INSTALL.
/assar
Index: INSTALL
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/arla/INSTALL,v
retrieving revision 1.57
diff -u -w -u -w -r1.57 INSTALL
--- INSTALL 1999/03/27 00:20:57 1.57
+++ INSTALL 1999/05/22 13:58:07
@@ -10,8 +10,12 @@
(this is the recommended way but requires a make that understands VPATH)
If you want to install somewhere different from the default
-`/usr/arla' give `--prefix=PATH' as an argument to configure. There
-are also some arla-specific arguments to configure:
+`/usr/arla' give `--prefix=PATH' as an argument to configure. Note
+that if you change your prefix from the default your kerberos
+libraries may have problems that your kerberos/afs libraries are
+unable to find what cell you belong to.
+
+There are also some arla-specific arguments to configure:
--with-arlacachedir=dir use dir as cachedir instead of $prefix/cache
--with-arlaconffile=file use file for configuration instead of $prefix/etc/arla.conf
