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In article <1992Oct1.192032.18977@athena.mit.edu> shanega@athena.mit.edu (Shane G. Artis) writes:
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>Hi, I have an un-networked NeXT running NeXTSTEP 3.0, and I can't seem
>to get the photoreal RenderMan server running.  I discovered this by
>trying the beta copy of Perspective.app and trying to do a full
>rendering of an image.  Apparently my machine got configured in such a
>way that the rpc.renderd daemon never executes at boot time.
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>This was confirmed when I checked  /private/adm/messages and found this
>note:
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>Oct  1 14:52:38 localhost inetd[284]: renderd/rpc/udp: unknown service
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Hi, sorry to follow-up on my own message, but a couple new things have
come to light.  First of all, this doesn't seem to be an uncommon
problem.  Within an hour of my original posting I had letters from two
other people who also can't get photorealistic RenderMan running on
their machines.  One was networked, the other was not.  Can someone
help us?  There must be several of us with this problem...

Second, I was able to get the rpc.renderd running properly by starting
NetInfoMangler and adding renderd as a rpc client and giving it the
proper number (found in /etc/rpc - it's 200100002).  Now when I run
rpcinfo -p it tells me rpc.renderd is running as it should be.
Unfortunately this doesn't change the basic fact that prman can't be
referenced from Perspective.app (or RenderManager.app for that
matter).  What's going on???

Finally, I _can_ run prman by hand giving it a .rib file a input.  It
will generate (after some time) a file, ri.pic.  Is this image file
format documented somewhere?  I have The RenderMan Companion, but it
only makes passing reference to this file and doesn't give its format.

Many thanks from myself and the others to anyone who can help us out!

Shane