beegfs-fsck does not work without a beegfs-client.conf file

[ttys42]

Describe the bug
Running beegfs-fsck without a /etc/beegfs/beegfs-client.conf gives an error message:
"Unrecoverable error: No connAuthFile configured. Using BeeGFS without connection authentication is considered insecure and is not recommended. If you really want or need to run BeeGFS without connection authentication, please set connDisableAuthentication to true."

Describe the system
BeeGFS 8.3.1
Rocky Linux 10.2

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:
Install BeeGFS
Rename /etc/beegfs/beegfs-client.conf to something else
Run beegfs-fsck

Expected behavior
A running beegfs-fsck instance

Log messages, error outputs

Additional context
BeeGFS supports custom beegfs-client.conf files, which can be used to mount multiple BeeGFS instances.
The individual mount configurations are managed through /etc/beegfs/beegfs-mounts.conf.

When this approach is used, a generic /etc/beegfs/beegfs-client.conf file is no longer meaningful and should ideally be removed. However, removing it prevents the use of beegfs-fsck, which still expects a standard client configuration file.

[iamjoemccormick]

Hi @ttys42 , if you're using a custom beegfs-client.conf file you can specify the path to that using beegfs-fsck --checkfs --cfgFile /etc/beegfs/XXX-client.conf.

beegfs-fsck --checkfs --help
GENERAL USAGE:
  $ beegfs-fsck --<modename> [mode_arguments] [client_arguments]

CLIENT ARGUMENTS:
 --cfgFile=<path>         Path to BeeGFS client config file.
                          (Default: /etc/beegfs/beegfs-client.conf)
 --<key>=<value>          Any setting from the client config file to override
                          the config file values (e.g. "--logLevel=5").
...

Does that cover what you need?

[ttys42]

While this option works as expected, the error message triggered when starting without it (and without beegfs-client.conf) is misleading. ("No connAuthFile configured")
Should be something like: "No beegfs-client.conf file found. Please specify a configuration file using --cfgFile"

BTW: Docs do not mention multi-mode for beegfs-client. However an init-multi-mode.beegfs-client file is included in the default installation. Is beegfs-client multi-mode officially planned?