Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!batcomputer!rogerj From: rogerj@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Roger Jagoda) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Help... Message-ID: <8934@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Date: 26 Sep 89 00:11:33 GMT References: <5533@tank.uchicago.edu> Reply-To: rogerj@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Roger Jagoda) Followup-To: FQOJ@CORNELLA.CIT.CORNELL.EDU Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY Lines: 50 In article <5533@tank.uchicago.edu> phd_ivo@gsbacd.uchicago.edu writes: > > a way to do so from a terminal? Try this, but don't tell the users...:-) /usr/etc/nppower off Check out the man page on nppower...pretty nifty utility! > >Finally, let me cast my vote on netinfo. I spent today recreating >1.0, since my last version---after deletion of the /me account and >some fiddling around with hostnames and groups---would just refuse >to start up netinfod. (nibindd was running). Nothing I could think >of would allow me to restart netinfo, so that I could see what was wrong >in the first place (no bootup error, either). > >Please, NeXT, allow us a way to save the entire NetInfo environment >to one file (I've tried copying old /etc/netinfo/local.nidb, but that >completely screwed up the bootup), so that users can experiment with >changes, and, if they fail, that the old state can be restored painlessly. > Me too! I don't know of any other system where I can update and rdist over 500 user names without regard to "where" they actually live. Now, I didn't live with the early bugs in NFS or YP but they both survived. I honestly believe in NetInfo (although it was a REAL struggle in 0.9), if only for the passwd info...the domains idea is truly great and clever and all that! Really, play with it for a long while, you'll see too, or am I the only one with over 200 users on these things to keep track of. I will admit it makes things easier being a NeXT-only net. I've had many reports of NeXT nibindd and netinfod causing MULTO problems with mixed nets. I haven't tested it under 1.0 yet...let ya know. How I solve the problem of returning to what I had before I made my last change is to use a tar: cd /etc/netinfo tar -cvf NEWNET.tar network.nidb Then, after I make some more changes, if they don't pan out, I just rm -rf the whole directoy and untar (tar -xvf NEWNET). Simple, if a bit crude. That's when I'm working in "/", but the same can be done for "." or ".." (the ".." I never did figure out how to use...maybe under 1.0..:-) ) Roger Jagoda Cornell University FQOJ@CORNELLA.CIT.CORNELL.EDU (607) 255-8960