=head1 DESCRIPTION
-The F<CellAlias> file is used when the AFS Cache Manager is Dynamic Root
-(B<-dynroot>) mode. It creates symbolic links in the dynamic root that
-link an alias for a cell (usually a short name) to the full name for the
-cell.
+The F<CellAlias> file is used by the Unix cache manager when it is using
+Dynamic Root (B<-dynroot>) mode. It creates symbolic links in the dynamic
+root (/afs) that link an alias for a cell (usually a short name) to the
+full name for the cell.
The most common use of this configuration file is to allow short names for
frequently used cell names. Traditionally, such short names would be
If you configure a short name mapping such as C<ir> for
C<ir.stanford.edu>, the mapping of C<.ir> to C<.ir.stanford.edu> for the
read/write version of the C<root.cell> volume for that cell will be
-created automatically. There is no need to list that alias separately (and
-it is listed separately, B<afsd> will report an error on startup).
+created automatically. There is no need to list that alias
+separately. B<afsd> will report an error on startup if the dotted entry is
+listed separately.
The contents of the F<CellAlias> file should consist of one line of two
whitespace-separated columns per alias. The first column is the real name