VOS_REMADDRS(1)

✨ VOS_REMADDRS ✨

okay bestie, so this one is vos_remaddrs from the AFS command reference, and it's giving "spring cleaning for your VLDB" energy 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

vos_remaddrs — removes a file server machine's entry from the VLDB 🧹

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

vos remaddrs -uuid <UUID of server>
    [-cell <cell name>] [-noauth] [-localauth]
    [-verbose] [-encrypt] [-noresolve]
    [-config <config directory>]
    [-help]

vos rema -u <UUID of server>
    [-c <cell name>]
    [-noa] [-l] [-v] [-e] [-nor]
    [-co <config directory>]
    [-h]

like, yes, there are two whole spellings because we love a short king abbreviation era 👑

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So. The vos remaddrs command removes a server entry from the Volume Location Database (aka the VLDB), and honestly? It's iconic but it's picky 💀

Here's the vibe check: there must be no VLDB entries that list the machine as a site for any version of a volume. None. Zero. Nada. If there are still some hanging around, bestie you gotta deal with them first — use the vos move or vos remove command to move or remove those volumes before you come back here. 🫶

When is it the right time to do this? When you're taking the corresponding file server machine out of service. That's literally the moment. Removing a VLDB server entry is appropriate exactly then, no cap. ✨

And if you just wanna look at all your VLDB server entries — like window shopping, no commitment — use the vos listaddrs command instead, okay? 👀

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -uuid <UUID of server> — the unique ID, and pls note this is the very same one you get from the "vos listaddrs -printuuid" command. copy-paste it, don't freestyle it 💅

it's giving "short list of options" and honestly, we respect the minimalism. periodt.

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🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

okay so here's a whole command that removes the VLDB server entry for the file server with the addresses 192.12.107.214 and 10.47.11.17. watch and learn:

$ vos remaddrs -uuid 008f157e-bad0-157c-0ffee-357c4d1faa77 -verbose
vos: Removing UUID with addresses:
UUID: 008f157e-bad0-157c-0ffee-357c4d1faa77
192.12.107.214
10.47.11.17

the -verbose flag is out here doing the most and we're obsessed with it — it literally shows you the UUID and both addresses as they get removed. main character output energy, fr fr 🔥

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👑 PRIVILEGE REQUIRED 👑

the issuer must be listed in the /etc/openafs/server/UserList file on each database server machine. so like, not just one of them. each one. every single one. don't be cute about it 🥲

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🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

CellServDB(5), UserList(5), fileserver(8), vos(1), vos_listaddrs(1), vos_setaddrs(1)

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💜 COPYRIGHT 💜

Copyright 2014 Sine Nomine Associates. All Rights Reserved.

This documentation is covered by the BSD License as written in the doc/LICENSE file. This man page was written by Michael Meffie for OpenAFS.

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okay that's the whole page 💖 thank you for coming to my ted talk, this was OpenAFS, dated 2026-07-27, and you ate that. bye bestie, slay responsibly 🎀✨