short cell name

Matt Elliott melliott@ncsa.uiuc.edu
Mon, 18 Jun 2001 12:24:50 -0500


My first guess is you need to mount root.afs somewhere and create the link.
You are trying to create a symlink at /afs and that is the volume
root.afs.readonly and it is read-only.

At 11:17 AM -0600 6/18/01, Joel_Tompkins@bc.com wrote:
>Hi! Another bonehead question, I suppose: When I did the initial install of
>afs, I did not create a short cellname symbolic link. Now when I cd to /afs
>and try to create it, I get "ln: the file system has read permission only".
>I have tried it as aix root and as afs system:admin. I have checked the aix
>permissions (drwxrwxrwx and drwxrwx---), and afs acls (system:admins
>rlidwka). Can't figure out why it is not allowing the creation of the
>symbolic link. Any ideas? Thanks!!!

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