I'm trying to get coda running on a FreeBSD 4.2 system.  I used the
ports to install the coda client and server on a machine, and the client
on a couple of other FreeBSD 4.1.1 or 4.2 machines.

The version of Coda I have came from coda-5.3.9.tgz.

The installs were successful.  I started the server by typing:
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/rc.vice start 

I ran vice-setup and answered the questions. It said that it was
successful.

It starts the proper programs:
Clarke# ps ax | egrep 'codasrv|auth2|rpc2portmap|updatesrv|updateclnt'
  986  ??  Ss     0:00.00 rpc2portmap
  990  ??  Is     0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/auth2
 1006  ??  S<s    0:00.29 codasrv
 1007  ??  Ss     0:00.01 updateclnt -h Clarke -q coda_udpsrv
 1008  ??  Ss     0:00.00 updatesrv -p /vice/db

Here are the various log file tails:

Clarke# tail SrvLog

12:03:30 ResLWP-1 just did a rvmlib_set_thread_data()

12:03:30 VolUtilLWP 0 just did a rvmlib_set_thread_data()

12:03:30 VolUtilLWP 1 just did a rvmlib_set_thread_data()

12:03:30 Starting SmonDaemon timer
12:03:30 File Server started Wed Nov  8 12:03:30 2000

Clarke# tail SrvErr
could not open key 2 file: No such file or directory

Clarke# tail /vice/auth2/AuthLog 
11:47:19 Server successfully started

11:50:44 Terminate signal received .......quitting
Starting  Auth Server......

Date: Wed 11/08/2000

12:03:30 Reallocing from 100 to 6000
12:03:30 Server successfully started

The other files mentioned in the howto do not exist: /vice/srv/portmaplog
/vice/srv/UpdateClntLog /vice/srv/UpdateLog.

Searching the mailing list, Jan Harkes (jaharkes_at_cs.cmu.edu) said: 
	The key-2 file is not important
so I'll assume that it is not necessary (valid assumption?).

So, why does cmon imply the server is not running?  I can use cmon to
connect to testserver.coda.cs.cmu.edu and get data.

Kenneth Ingham
ingham_at_i-pi.com