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The OpenAFS Gatekeepers are pleased to announce the availability of OpenAFS version 1.4.12.

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OpenAFS 1.4.12 is the current recommended release for all Unix platforms; For Windows, we recommend use of the current 1.5 series release for best performance, and we do not expect to provide OpenAFS 1.4 series binaries for Windows.

[Quelle: Derrick via openafs-annouce]

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The OpenAFS Gatekeepers announce the availability of the fourth release candidate for OpenAFS version 1.4.12.

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A large number of bugfixes, including in the Linux cache manager and the fileserver, are included, as well as a Preferences Pane for MacOS.
Since 1.4.12pre3, an issue which could trigger a MacOS bug and hang Finder, an issue with Linux file locking, an issue with Linux 2.6.33 kernel module builds, an erroneous crash in the fileserver when checking for corruption in the host list, a race on detecting deleted hosts in the fileserver host list, and a client retry issue for idle Rx connections have been addressed.

[Quelle: Derrick via openafs-annouce]

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In 2009, OpenAFS converted to git for our revision control needs, and it has greatly improved code submission and review.

However, for those of you who wish to create repository forks for development, wish to collaborate on it, but do not wish to maintain your own git installation, things were a bit harder.

To improve this situation as well as to make available github’s visualization tools, OpenAFS git changes are now being pushed to github upon commit. You can visit

http://github.com/openafs/openafs

to view any changes as well as to create a fork to develop on, and then push changes to OpenAFS gerrit later when you are ready for review and submission. The git.openafs.org tree remains the canonical repository.

[Quelle: Derrick via openafs-annouce]

Clone-URL: git://github.com/openafs/openafs.git
git clone git://github.com/openafs/openafs.git

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1.5.72 is the recommended production-ready release of OpenAFS for Microsoft Windows users. It supports all Microsoft Windows operating systems from Windows 2000 through Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 including both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures. The 1.5.72 release restores AFSDB support for kaserver users. The 1.5.72 Windows client is fully compatible with all AFS server versions.

For UNIX, Linux, and MacOS X (including Snow Leopard) the recommended production-ready release of OpenAFS is 1.4.11.

Please visit openafs.org/windows for up to date information on the status of the OpenAFS for Windows client.

[Quelle: Derrick via openafs-annouce]

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The OpenAFS Gatekeepers announce the availability of the third release candidate for OpenAFS version 1.4.12.

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A large number of bugfixes, including in the Linux cache manager and the fileserver, are included, as well as a Preferences Pane for MacOS.
Since 1.4.12pre2, a Linux bug regarding cache access when SELinux is enabled, and a MacOS issue when enumerating /afs in Finder have been addressed.

[Quelle: Derrick via openafs-annouce]

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With sur5r’s dkms-hint, let’s write this article again:

The installation of the client on modern Linux distributions is pretty straight forward.

1. get the packages
2. compile the kernel module
3. mess around in some config files

First step: get the packages
sudo apt-get install
openafs-client openafs-doc openafs-modules-dkms openafs-krb5 krb5-clients krb5-config krb5-user krb5-doc
(Yes, we’ll install the -doc-Packages, because everyone likes documentation)

Last step: the config files
Open /etc/krb5.conf and edit the sections containing the following:

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[libdefaults]
        default_realm = MYCELL.NET
[realms]
        MYCELL.NET = {
                kdc = kdc1.mycell.net
                kdc = kdc2.mycell.net
                admin_server = kdc1.mycell.net
                default_domain = mycell.net
        }
[domain_realm]
        .mycell.net = MYCELL.NET
        mycell.net = MYCELL.NET

You should translate mycell.net to your local cell settings, but you already knew that, right? Ask your AFS Admin, if you are not sure about the correct values.

You may also take a look at /etc/openafs/afs.conf.client, /etc/openafs/ThisCell and /etc/openafs/CellServDB, but in most cases there’s no need to change something within these three files. If you need to get an updated version of /etc/openafs/CellServDB, just get it via FTP from grand.central.org.
wget -O /etc/openafs/CellServDB
ftp://ftp.central.org/pub/cellservdb/CellServDB

The very last step: restart the client
sudo /etc/init.d/openafs-client restart
Now the magic happens. The missing kernel module will be compiled in time and the OpenAFS-Client gets started. The benefit: remember updating your kernel and updating every single module again and again? dkms will help you, that you only need to update the kernel – the modules will be upgraded automagicly.

You’re done! kinit and aklog will be your best friends from now on!

Kerberos, Linux, OpenAFS

Per Twitter kam heute Nacht noch eine weitere Meldung zum Thema OpenAFS:

OpenAFS 1.5.71 is also up on OpenAFS.org. We don’t recommend updating Linux clients at this time, though.

Dies war allerdings kein offizielles Announcement, daher wohl auch die Empfehlung Linux-Maschinen noch nicht upzudaten (denglisch, olé). Wer sich’s trotzdem schon ansehen möchte, 1.5.71 befindet sich bei den unstable releases.

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