On Jan 25, 2016, at 7:28 AM, Pete Turnbull <p...@dunnington.plus.com> wrote: > > Yesterday I dug out my NexTstation (68040 25MHz slab with 32MB of 100ns > SIMMs) which has OpenStep 4.2 for Mach installed. The lithium battery was > flat and it wouldn't boot so I've ordered a replacement and temporarily > kludged a pair of alkaline AAs to get it going. So far, so good, though it > thinks today is September 6 2001 :-) > > Then I used SimpleNetworkStarter, set to "Use the network, but don't share > administrative data". I've also edited /etc/hostconfig and reslv.conf to > sensible values (eg TIME=-NO-) so it now boots quite quickly. > > Is there a way to disable NetInfo completely, and if so will things like DNS > lookups still work? > > Is there an easy way to make it get its time/date settings from my NTP > server? During startup it does claim to start netinfo, lookupd, ntpd (see > below), then inetd, > > I have an SGI running IRIX which is my DHCP, DNS, and NTP server, and I plan > to set up the NexT to use DHCP to get its IP address etc (it's static ATM). >
You cannot disable Netinfo on that version of Openstep. Its integrated too tightly with the system. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetInfo <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetInfo> For NTP turn on TIME=-Automatic- and in Netinfo add an ip address for the reference to /locations/ntp/server. You might need to force the first sync via ntp -v -F
