Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!rutgers!ucsd!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!RAND.ORG!salzman%gaucho From: salzman%gaucho@RAND.ORG (Isaac Salzman) Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew Subject: WP setup for non AFS sites Message-ID: Date: 15 Nov 89 17:40:40 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 26 setting up WP is a bit of a hassle and the doc's are somewhat incomplete. but hey, it's beta. it would be nice if WP could be more easily configured for non-AFS sites. right now, for non-AFS sites to use WP, you need to setup /afs/CELLNAME/service/wp for each machine that wants to use this stuff. it would be nice if the WP directory could be a configuration option in AndrewSetup. on a network of NFS'd Suns, setting that directory to something shareable (like /usr/local/lib/wp or /usr/andrew/lib/wp) would be ideal. another problem is that CELLNAME ends up to get set to host.domain, where host is the hostname (fine), and domain is the Yellow Pages domain name, which is usually not the same as a "real" domain (i.e. rand.org in our case). so i have to set ThisDomain to gaucho.rand.org (the full host name) in AndrewSetup (if i want the system to reference the real domain name of this machine). the problem with that is AndrewSetup is not shareable since ThisDomain reall means ThisHost. ThisDomain should really reference the domain name only (e.g. rand.org). * Isaac J. Salzman ---- * The RAND Corporation - Information Sciences Dept. /o o/ / * 1700 Main St., PO Box 2138, Santa Monica, CA 90406-2138 | v | | * AT&T : +1 213-393-0411 x6421 or x7923 (ISL lab) _| |_/ * Internet : salzman@rand.org / | | * UUCP : !uunet!rand.org!salzman | | | * CompuServe: 76167,1046