From 12612c0d42b530bed3bea5ea4b92ce289dccaada Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Russ Allbery Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 06:33:03 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add some additional explanation of afs-rootcell, afs-newcell, and bosserver. --- debian/README.servers | 13 +++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/debian/README.servers b/debian/README.servers index 2a7a40ae5..e15997ae1 100644 --- a/debian/README.servers +++ b/debian/README.servers @@ -218,7 +218,10 @@ Creating a New Cell 9. Run afs-newcell. This will prompt you to be sure that the above steps have been complete and will ask you for the Kerberos principal to use for AFS administrative access. You should use the - username/admin principal discussed above. + username/admin principal discussed above. afs-newcell sets up the + initial protection database (which stores users and groups), + configures the AFS database and file server daemons, and creates the + root volume for AFS clients. At the completion of this step, you should see bosserver and several other AFS server processes running, and you should be able to see @@ -226,6 +229,10 @@ Creating a New Cell bos status localhost -local + bosserver is a master server that starts and monitors all the + individual AFS servers, and bos is the program used to send it + commands. + Now, you should be able to run: kinit username/admin@REALM @@ -249,7 +256,9 @@ Creating a New Cell principal (rather than using the local KeyFile to authenticate). 10. Run afs-rootvol. This creates the basic AFS volume structure for - your new cell. It will prompt you to be sure that the above steps + your new cell, including the top-level volume, the mount point for + your cell in the AFS root volume, and the mount points for all known + public cells. It will prompt you to be sure that the above steps are complete and then will ask you what file server and partition to create the volume on. If you were following the above instructions, use the local hostname and "a" as the partition (without the -- 2.39.5