Configuration funny

[Henry B. Hotz]

At 4:12 PM +0200 5/10/01, Magnus Ahltorp wrote:
> > A friend tried installing yesterday's MacOS X binary snapshot.  We
> > can't get it to look at the JPL cell.  We changed
> > /usr/arla/etc/ThisCell to match what I put in /usr/local/etc/ThisCell
> > for my source-built pre2 installation but it still mounts the kth top
> > level.  Authentication works fine.
> >
> > Suggestions?  I assume this behavior is typical if the ThisCell file
> > is unreadable, but it's owned by root.wheel and world readable like
> > everything else in that directory.
>
>This sounds strange, but you could try to create a file called
>/usr/arla/etc/DynRootDB and list the cells you want to have in /afs,
>and then start arlad with the -D option. The DynRootDB file is new in
>0.35.4pre4.

That was it.  The new startarla script comes with that option and the 
default DynRootDB file was overriding the ThisCell value.


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