Updatemon and authmon have been retired for good.

As of 4.6.5 you MUST also run the rpc2portmap BEFORE starting the
updatesrv and updateclnt.

- Peter -

On Sat, 12 Sep 1998, LEE, Yui-wah wrote:

> "Sergio Romano" <sergio_at_arroba.com.ar> wrote:
> > 
> > Any guide to it? What must we look for?
> > 
> > Must the coda servers (codasrv, auth2, update) be running or just the coda.o
> > module installed and thats it?
> 
> They are all different things, and should all be there for a
> working system:
> 
>   codasrv:  The Coda file server, must be running on server(s).  It was
>             used to be named "srv".
> 
>   auth2:    The authentication server, must be running on an authentication
>             server(s) (could be the same machine(s) as any server(s)).
> 
>   update:   Actually, I think you mean updateclnt and updatesrv
>             (and don't confuse with the "update" program use by the
>             Linux OS).
> 
>             They are the programs use to make sure non-SCM server get
>             the same database files (such as VSGDB, VLDB etc) as the
>             SCM server.  In other words, when you make change to those
>             database files on a SCM, sooner or later they will be get
>             propagated to all other non-SCM server.  "updateclnt" should
>             always run on non-SCM server, and "updatesrv" should always
>             run on SCM machine.
> 
>             Umm..., it used to be the case that there is another
>             program called "updatemon" which monitors and makes sure that
>             updateclnt and updatesrv are always up and running.  Has it
>             been retired ? I couldn't find it in recent Coda release
>             (mines is 4.6.1).
> 
>   coda.o:   The kernel module that must be up and running in any
>             Coda client.  However, usually, you don't need to start it
>             explicitly, it will automatically loaded when you start venus.
> 
> On my system, I can check if all those babies are there by:
> 
> *** (On my SCM machine)
> [root_at_xylophone db]# ps auxww | grep -i codasrv
> root       434  0.0  0.1  3068    32  ?  S   Sep  9   0:00 codasrv -trunc 5 -debarrenize -nosalvageonshutdown -nodumpvm -rvm /dev/hdb1 /dev/hda5 39690240 
> root      1240  0.0  1.1   844   348  p1 S    11:13   0:00 grep -i codasrv 
> 
> [root_at_xylophone db]# ps auxww | grep -i update
> root       360  0.0  0.7  1468   232  ?  S   Sep  9   2:32 updateclnt -h xylophone -q coda_udpsrv 
> root       361  0.0  1.1  1496   356  ?  S   Sep  9   4:07 updatesrv -p /vice/db 
> root       377  0.0  0.0   728    24  ?  S   Sep  9   0:00 update (bdflush) 
> 
> (Note that the "update (bdflush)" process is *not* a coda process)
> 
> [root_at_xylophone db]# ps auxww | grep -i auth2 
> root       362  0.0  1.7  1588   540  ?  S   Sep  9   0:00 auth2 
> 
> *** (On my non-SCM machine)
> 
> [clement_at_violin clement]$ ps auxww | grep -i codasrv
> root       357  0.0 60.7 44132 18748  ?  S < Sep 10   0:06 codasrv -trunc 5 -debarrenize -nosalvageonshutdown -nodumpvm -rvm /dev/hdc1 /dev/hda8 39690240 
> 
> [clement_at_violin clement]$ ps auxww | grep -i update
> root       346  0.0  1.2  1608   376  ?  S   Sep 10   2:13 updateclnt -h xylophone -q coda_udpsrv 
> root       347  0.0  0.7  1492   216  ?  S   Sep 10   0:00 updatesrv -p /vice/db 
> root       366  0.0  0.0   728    24  ?  S   Sep 10   0:00 update (bdflush) 
> 
> (Note that the "update (bdflush)" process is *not* a coda process)
> 
> [clement_at_violin clement]$ ps auxww | grep -i auth2
> clement    700  0.0  1.1   844   344  p0 S    11:17   0:00 grep -i auth2 
> root       341  0.0  0.9  1588   292  ?  S   Sep 10   0:00 auth2 -chk 
> 
> 
> *** (On my client)
> 
> [root_at_duet /root]# lsmod
> Module         Pages    Used by
> coda              12            2 (autoclean)
> nfs               12            6 (autoclean)
> 3c59x              3            1 (autoclean)
> 
> 
> Hope this help.
> 
> -- Clement
> 
> 
> 
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