19 Jul
2001
19 Jul
'01
4:08 a.m.
Quoting Pete Turnbull <pete(a)dunnington.u-net.com>om>:
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.
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. 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