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- From: joseph@lilliput.fdn.org (Joseph Goldstone)
- Subject: Re: rendering under 3.0 - urgent help needed
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.164720.816@lilliput.fdn.org>
- Keywords: renderman netinfo localhost
- Sender: joseph@lilliput.fdn.org
- Organization: Lilliputian Pictures - Paris, France.
- References: <Bzpssy.IJE@newcastle.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 16:47:20 GMT
- Lines: 53
-
- Scott A. McIntyre writes
- > Whilst mucking around with installing DNS stuff, I have somehow managed to
- lose the
- > ability to render on my NSC machine. I was able to do it when I first
- installed 3.0, but
- > i've had to customise it so much that I can't remember what was changed and
- where.
- >
- > When I try to render anything to localhost, I get a popup window that
- complains that it
- > "Couldn't connect to localhost" and then dies.
- >
- > Can someone with 3.0 and working rendering, please tell me what I should have
- aliased in
- > /etc/hosts, or in netinfo, or wherever, or what should be running, and so on!
- >
- > Thank you!
- > Scott
- >
- Here is a configuration that works for me, in my two-level [network and local]
- netinfo setup, which makes no reference to "localhost". Perhaps it will help
- you out.
-
- At both the network level and the local leves one finds a directory named
- /locations/renderers. This directory has the property value pairs:
- name renderers
- _writers *
-
- Under the network /locations/renderers directory, there is a subdirectory named
- lilliput (the name of this machine). The property/value pairs attached to this
- /locations/renderers/lilliput directory are:
- name lilliput
- _writers *
- note Lilliputian render engine
-
- This seems to do the trick; the render panel pops up with the one possible
- entry and when one clicks on it, the renderer happily proceeds:
-
- lilliput> ps -ax | grep render
- 216 ? S 0:02 rpc.renderd
- 769 ? R 0:01 prman tiffrender.000.rib
- 771 p1 S 0:00 grep render
- lilliput>
-
- Do you have an rpc.renderd going on your machine?
-
- There is this question of why, when there is one entry on the list of
- possibilities, one cannot short-circuit the panel entirely, but that's
- something to be asked of c.s.n.programmer I guess.
-
- Good luck.
-
- -- joseph
-