Quoting Pete Turnbull <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>:
> On Jul 19, 8:52, Jarkko Teppo wrote:
>
>
> Thanks, I'll look tonight.
or:
http://www.channelu.com/NeXT/NeXTStep/3.3/nsa/11_MixedNet.htmld/
> > NeXT(s). NI would probably kick ass in an installation with
> something
> > like 100 machines.
>
> Except that it breaks one of the golden UNIX rules; keep the config
> information human-readable.
Well, NeXT did a few things against unix traditions, NI didn't
probably work out well but objc, developing environment and the
windowing system certainly did. One really has to try those to see
how badly X11 sucks.
> I did that too :-) By following the obvious option in the setup and
> telling the machine it should use the network. I didn't realise what I
> was
> telling it to use the network *for* :-)
>
If you end up with a corrupted NI db (badly corrupted) you can reset all
the NI information by booting single-user and
cp -r /usr/template/client/etc/hostconfig /etc
cp -r /usr/template/client/etc/netinfo /etc/netinfo
You'll lose all NI information like user accounts and so on. Better than
a reinstall anyway.
I once had to do that when I hooked up a TK50ZGAFSA (the one with almost-scsi
anyway) and it had the same SCSI-ID as my root disk. I should have noticed this
when the tape drive started blinking as the root drive was seeking. Blame it
on the beer. You should have seen the drive corruption though :-)
--
jht
Received on Thu Jul 19 2001 - 04:08:28 BST