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- From: matthews@oberon.umd.edu (Mike Matthews)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
- Subject: /screens/NeXTdimension ???
- Message-ID: <14673@umd5.umd.edu>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 16:37:18 GMT
- Sender: news@umd5.umd.edu
- Lines: 55
- Originator: matthews@oberon.umd.edu
-
- As a followup to my woes about blowing away the /machines directory in
- NetInfo via niload -d bootptab, I have another question. (By the way, I
- forget if I mentioned this but just about the only recourse after hosing
- NetInfo so bad it can't even find a database using machine/tag is to restore
- from a backup)
-
- After getting everything set up again, and bringing NetInfo back up to its
- previous state (niunparse came in reeeal handy, although it needs to check
- syntax more when dealing with NFS mounts in /mounts), I rebooted (after doing
- a diff on a before niunparse and an after niunparse; they were identical).
-
- Loginwindow didn't show up. (I already mentioned that, didn't I?)
-
- Anyway, I noticed when I was bringing NetInfo back up that the backups had a
- /screens/NeXTdimension directory, while the standard NeXT one didn't. The ND
- was there, the process was running, things were working, which baffled me. I
- went singleuser, fired up NetInfo (again, /usr/etc/nmserver&;
- /usr/etc/portmap; /usr/etc/nibindd) and deleted /screens/NeXTdimension.
-
- All worked fine.
-
- Before:
-
- /screens/NeXTdimension
- slot 2
- unit 0
- bounds 0 1120 0 832
- active 1
- /screens/MegaPixel
- slot 0
- unit 0
- bounds 1120 2240 0 832
- active 0
-
- Now:
-
- /screens/MegaPixel
- slot 0
- unit 0
- bounds 1120 2240 0 832
- active 0
-
- <same as above>
-
- *But no /screens/NeXTdimension*
-
- Heeelp. Anybody know what gives? What does your NeXTdimension system give
- when you do an niutil -list . /screens? Nothing showed up in my queries to
- NeXTanswers, online network and sysadmin, and FAQ. And that little thing
- that came with the Dimension card isn't much help at all.
- ------
- Mike Matthews, matthews@oberon.umd.edu (NeXTmail accepted)
- ------
- The best thing about growing older is that it takes such a long time.
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