Coda File System

Re: norton works?

From: Jan Harkes <jaharkes_at_cs.cmu.edu>
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 12:25:38 -0400
On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 11:56:13AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> I tried to use norton and it failed due to vicedir not being set.  I
> added the following call and then it seemed to work fine.  I suspect
> this isn't really a good solution I don't grasp how this would work
> otherwise, or whether I'm just missing config files that are now
> mandatory.  (But there were no "fatal: can't read config file foo"
> messages.)

If the config files are not present, existing defaults are used. The
config files become really useful when setting up multiple servers on
the same machine.

> Index: norton.cc
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /coda-src/coda/coda-src/norton/norton.cc,v
> retrieving revision 4.6
> diff -u -u -r4.6 norton.cc
> --- norton.cc	2000/02/03 23:57:06	4.6
> +++ norton.cc	2000/04/25 15:54:10
> @@ -56,6 +56,7 @@
>      }
>  
>      
> +    vice_dir_init("/vice", 0);
>      NortonInit(argv[argstart], argv[argstart+1], atoi(argv[argstart+2]));
>      
>      InitParsing();

Patch is good, I've added an extra option to norton to accept
`-n servernumber', although I'm not sure how useful that is (yet).
Maybe at some point we'll pull the RVM log/data/size information
directly out of the configfile.

Jan
Received on 2000-04-25 12:27:58