phd_ivo@gsbacd.uchicago.edu (05/05/90)
I recently bought an external Wren V harddisk for my NeXT computer, and all in all, it was a pleasant experience getting it reformatted (with Ron Anthony and Axel ??? low-level formatter), creating a disktab entry and mounting it. (I have 2 now: my internal 330MB and an external 608MB one.) If you intend to do this, and get stuck, let me know. I do have 2 problems, though: (1) I would like to mount the disk /dev/sd1a on /Users. I have no problems doing this by hand, but I can't get it done on bootup time. I've tried modifying fstab, and loading it into NetInfo, but it doesn't mount. Did I forget something? The reason I want this at boot time is because I want to export (via NFS) the /Users directory to another machine. exportfs appears to run at boot-time, and complains that it can't find /Users. (2) I screwed up my sendmail.cf, and no matter what I do, it can send mail to anything in my host table---except agsm.ucla.edu (I am next.agsm.ucla.edu.) Even the abbreviations for agsm.ucla.edu work, just not the name itself. Moreover, it doesn't even seem to go out of my NeXT. Is there some way that I could have screwed up the mailer so that it comes back with the "user@agsm.ucla.edu unknown" message (even before biff tells me that it has returned the message? Help appreciated. /ivo welch ivo@next.agsm.ucla.edu