Kelly Price (STriker RedWolf), Judah Milgram, Amy Loomis

Linux AFS FAQ

This FAQ contains questions and answers pertaining to running Transarc's AFS client on Linux, either Derek Atkin's Linux port, the offical Transarc client, or even Arla. More information can be obtained from the Linux-AFS listserv -- see the apropriate secton.

The latest version can be found at http://www.umlug.umd.edu/linuxafs, and is maintained by Kelly "STriker RedWolf" Price of the UM Linux Users Group.

Submit questions about Linux-AFS to the mailing list (STriker will pick 'em up and put 'em in). Comments and corrections should be mailed to STriker himself at tygris+afs@erols.com, or aloomis@sarn.org.

The FAQ was last updated 1/30/00

1. Acknowledgements

2. AFS and Linux

• 2.1 What is AFS, first off?
• 2.2 There is AFS for Linux?
• 2.3 Is there a mailling list or listserv?
• 2.4 Is the mailing list archived?
• 2.5 I'm too rushed now. How do I unsubscribe from the mailling list?
• 2.6 What's the licensing situation with the Linux AFS client?
• 2.7 Isn't there a free AFS client?
• 2.8 I heard of MR-AFS. What is that?

3. Obtaining and installing AFS

• 3.1 How do I get the AFS Client?
• 3.2 Yeah, but I don't have a site contact.
• 3.3 Which versions of Linux are supported?
• 3.4 I have Modules 2.1.x... (hints with RedHat 5.x et al)
• 3.5 Is there a port of the AFS Server?
• 3.6 Are SMP (multiprocessor) and development kernels supported?
• 3.7 Which version of AFS is the Linux port?
• 3.8 How do I install this package?
• 3.9 Are there ports to Linux on the Sparcs, Alphas, or PowerPC's?
• 3.10 Is there a Disconnected AFS?
• 3.11 My home directory on a remote machine is in AFS, and when I try to ssh

4. Running the Linux AFS client

• 4.1 How do I start AFS?
• 4.2 How do I shut down AFS?
• 4.3 How do I change my password in AFS?
• 4.4 How do I restart arla?

5. Social Engineering

• 5.1 Accessing AFS pages over Apache

6. Problems, weird bugs, etc...

• 6.1 How do I report bugs?
• 6.2 "ls -l" says my files belong to someone else
• 6.3 vi brings up files as "read only", or "test -r" doesn't
• 6.4 I'm user "X" on my Linux box, but I can access my own user "Y"
• 6.5 I'm in the wrong cell after starting AFS!!!
• 6.6 I keep getting the MIT SuidCells back when I start AFS!
• 6.7 I have Slackware 3.2, 3.5, or later, and I...
• 6.8 I have Redhat 5.1 and I'm having problems...
• 6.9 I want to login with AFS!!!
• 6.10 Hey! I overran my quota but I see an empty file on the remote machine!
• 6.11 I tried to klog, and got "Unable to authenticate to AFS because AFS kernel