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NeXT Netinfo Troubles

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From: Steven Sietz
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 12:50
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I was messing around with my cube yesterday and I think I confused netinfo.

Here's the deal:

My cube died last month and had it shipped out.  In the meantime, I changed
the netinfo on its clients - nextstations (from netinfo network to non-netinfo)
I get the cube back and boot it up.  The previous netinfo db was restored
and all looked well.  I changed the configs on the nextstations back to
netinfo and rebooted.  They couldn't find their netinfo server. 

I was able to connect to the station's netinfo db from the cube so I knew I
was close.  However, I believe I started copying the broadcasthost entry
between domains.  This caused my cube's netinfo to shut down.  I am logged in
as myself but cannot su to root, run netinfo, or even an ls -l.  (Plain ls 
works).  Nor can I do an nidump of the / domain.

What should I do?  I presume I must reboot into single user mode but don't know
my way around niutil or niload.  Help!!

		-Steve-

PS.  These NeXT machines sure aren't very forgiving!!
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77A West Bluebell Lane  |  uucp:      {backbone}!rutgers!cs.rutgers.edu!ssietz
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From: ssietz@aramis.rutgers.edu (Steven Sietz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXT Netinfo Troubles
Keywords: Help!
Message-ID: <Sep.15.08.50.15.1992.27292@aramis.rutgers.edu>
Date: 15 Sep 92 12:50:15 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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