🚀 go-pugleaf

muegel@rtsg.mot.com (Michael S. Muegel) writes:

>Previously, jbradsha@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Jonathan Bradshaw) wrote:
>>This is undoubtably obvious (I hope) but neither I nor the syadmin of the
>>NeXT machine know how the NetInfo stuff can be changed from a root login
>>via telnet. It's no problem when logged into the console with the GUI
>>editor but is there anyway to put new entries in the mount list etc. from
>>remote?  I checked the FAQ and didn't see anything about this and manuals
>>seem to only geared from console logins.

>Could you use some hacked up nidump/niload scheme? I.e. use nidump to get
>the info, edit it, and them pop it back into NetInfo land via niload.
Sure.
There isn't anything you can't do with niload, nidump, niutil, and
nidomain.  (well, you might need awk or perl and surely grep to get
some of the neat views you can with NetInfoMangler, but you CAN do
it)
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