Review of the BSD part of MacOS X Beta

gbooker writes " Deamon News has an interesting article about the BSD core of MacOS X Beta. They talk about how it differs from the traditional MacOS AND how it differs from BSD. This is the first installment of what could be an interesting series."

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NetInfo is nothing new, do homework

[green pizza]

The author of the article has probably never touched a NeXT system (or a PC, SPARC, or HP box running OpenStep). NetInfo is not new, it's over 10 years old and well documented. Properly implemented on a network it makes life soooooo much easier. Please, before you compare NeXTstep/OpenStep/Rhapsody/MacOSX to your favorite flavor of BSD, do some research on NeXTstep and NetInfo. It makes a lot more sense if you have a real interstanding of why things are the way they are.

Try this link for some pointers and URLs:
http://204.214.75.123/next/index.html

Apple is evil!

[thimo]

Slashdot apparently pissed off Apple, they've got /.hidden!

Thimo
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Re:Reboot?

[MouseR]

This is most-likelly a temporary ommission due in part by delivery timeframe, and certainly not because it can't be done.

not long ago, a well known rumour site showed a script that was sent to them to restart the network services without having to erboot your machine after such reconfiguration:

1. #!/bin/sh
2. 
   case `whoami` in
   root)
   ;;
   *)
   echo "Not Administrator (root). You need to be in order to restart the network."
   return
   ;;
   esac
   echo "Restarting the network, network will be unavailable."
   kill `ps aux | grep ipconfigd | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'`
   echo " - Killed 'ipconfigd'."
   ipconfigd
   echo " - Started 'ipconfigd' right back up."
   sleep 1
   ipconfig waitall
   echo " - Ran 'ipconfig waitall' to re-configure for new settings."
   sleep 1
   kill -HUP `cat /var/run/nibindd.pid`
   echo " - Killed 'nibindd' with a HUP (hang up)."
   sleep 2
   kill -HUP `cat /var/run/lookupd.pid`
   echo " - Killed 'lookupd' with a HUP (hang up)."
   echo "The network has successfully been restarted and/or re-configured and is now available. "
   
   

This script, when run as root, resets the networking interfaces and services in a very short period of time ( make sure you save this script and chmod 755 and chown it to root.

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