Netinfo Hassles, How to fix?

Article View: comp.sys.next.sysadmin

Article #614

Back to comp.sys.next.sysadmin Previous Next

#614

From: Jerry Weiss
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 07:40

25 lines
1519 bytes

On our group of Next's we seem to have a problem with the Netinfo
Database.  We have a bogus entry in groups which has a directory of id of
0.  This is source of endless amusement, since it's a recursive entry.
The suggested fix in the manuals (N+SA pg 37) doesn't work for this entry.
UserMgr would croak, etc..   We probably made all sorts of neophyte
mistakes we set these up originally.

I've isolated the bogus entry in "groups" renamed it to something else and
created a new "groups", copied things over and this seems
to keep things humming.

However I keep getting messages ...netinfod[64] cannot lookup child 
on the console. The Root Domain Directory:0 also seems to have a rather
interesting directory instance 43643964.  Is this related to these funny
entries?  Should I dump the entire netinfo database and reload from
scratch? [ argh :-( ]

Suggestions, or pointers to appropriate archives appreciated.

Email responses preferred, I'll summarize if there is interest.


-- 
Jerry S. Weiss	  "If you can't stand the heat, stay out of the antimatter!"
j-weiss@nwu.edu    Dept. Medicine, Northwestern Univ. Medical School

Technical Details

Message-ID: <1992Apr17.074028.7634@casbah.acns.nwu.edu>

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!jweiss

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!jweiss
From: jweiss@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Jerry Weiss)
Subject: Netinfo Hassles,  How to fix?
Message-ID: <1992Apr17.074028.7634@casbah.acns.nwu.edu>
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 07:40:28 GMT
Lines: 25