Product Notes for IRIX Systems

• kdump program does not work with dynamically loaded kernels

  The AFS kernel dump program, kdump, cannot retrieve kernel information from an IRIX system on which the dynamic kernel loader, ml, was used to load AFS extensions. The kdump program can read only static kernels into which AFS is built.

• No AFS-modified remote commands

  The AFS distribution for IRIX machines does not include AFS-modified versions of any of the remote (r*) commands except inetd.afs. Silicon Graphics has already modified the IRIX versions of the remote commands to be compatible with AFS.

• Do not run the fsr program

  Do not run the IRIX File System Reorganizer (fsr program) on a client cache partition (/usr/vice/cache directory or equivalent) or AFS server partition (/vicep directory). The program can corrupt or remove AFS data.

• The timed daemon runs by default

  The IRIX 6.5 distribution includes and starts the timed time-synchronization daemon by default. If you want to use the runntp program and the Network Time Protocol Daemon (NTPD) on AFS server machines, as documented in OpenAFS Quick Beginnings, issue the following commands. They disable the timed daemon and remove it from the machine's startup sequence.

  # /etc/chkconfig -f timed off # /sbin/killall timed

• Default login program does not grant AFS tokens

  The IRIX 6.5 distribution includes the clogin program as the default login utility. This graphical utility does not grant AFS tokens. If you want your users to obtain tokens during login, you must disable the clogin program and substitute either the standard command-line login program or the xdm graphical login utility, both of which grant AFS tokens if AFS modifications have been incorporated into the kernel. Issue the following command to disable the clogin program.

  # /etc/chkconfig -f visuallogin off