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Hello:

I wish to thank the people that responded to my cry for help with
getting the NeXT to read /etc/fstab.

I have a new problem, and this one is very strange.  I edited
/etc/passwd and /etc/group and put the funky escape code which tells
the machine to consult YP maps for group and username lookups.  The
only problem is that I'm getting multiple entries now for people (one
for their entry in NetInfo databases and also one for the YP lookup).

Perhaps I should use something like niload passwd . < /etc/passwd, but
I'm not sure.  The manpage on niload sucked the big "you-know-what" in
my book.

Should I disable NetInfo?  I feel that it might not be easy and also may
cause quite a bit of grief later on.  It seems that NetInfo gives the
NeXT quite a bit of functionality and I would be crippling it to disable
it.  I just can't seem to make NIS (YP) and NetInfo coexist very nicely.

My second problem is about mailers.  Is it best to use the sendmail.cf file
for /usr/spool/mail as an NFS mount?  I'm getting errors about not being
able to append to the current mail file.  I get the impression that I'm
dealing with write permissions over NFS and that is causing the mailer on
my NeXT to bomb out.  Just how does the mailer know how to deal with NFS
mounts for /usr/spool/mail if you use that particular sendmail.cf file?  I'm
currently mounting the mail directory to a Sun.

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Clint Olsen 
olsenc@maxwell.ee.washington.edu

Computers cause dain bramage...
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