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I'm guessing that the unarchived framework may have been a small part of the problem. I used "tar zxf ncutils*" to unpack the old ncutils. Perhaps something became corrupted? The problem was not on installing ncutils however, but on running it.

Since "pure" Darwin 8.0 does not have ammenable drivers for sound on my (PowerBook G4) machine, I have reverted  (happily) to running a hacked version of Darwin 7.4 after killing Mac OSX (I happen to prefer GNUstep using Fink). I cannot now reproduce the errors I had with ncutils at this point. I will at some point in the near future, and look forward to, reinstalling Darwin 8.0 and make public the error messages I got. Sorry I didn't do this before.

My fear is that the PowerBook G4 as a laptop is too self-integrated to work with OpenSource UNIX tools. I've had a few other problems installing UNIX stuff on this machine that I never had with other Macs - problems that I cannot find reports of with non-laptop computers; for example, I've read reports about problems with getting OpenDarwin 7.4 to run on the PowerBook G4 machine (faulty nvram?), and I am guessing that this machine is a "blip" in Apple's history.

Perhaps I am wrong...

What to do? For now Fink-on-Darwin7.4 works fine for me. I have a job to do that depends on this... I'll get back to you when I reinstall Darwin 8.0 and start working with ncutils again and I'll try to be less wishy-washy at that point.   ;)

Thanks agan for your comments
and Jeff, thanks for ncutils!

Best wishes,
Toby







On 23/03/06, Justin C. Walker <email@hidden> wrote:

On Mar 23, 2006, at 05:40 , Toby D. Young wrote:

>
> Thanks for your advice.
>
> I tried editing my Darwin config "BSD-style" which didn't work,
> moreover after every reboot the system restores /etc/resolv.conf,
> etc to defaults - I don't understand why this happens.

That assuredly won't work; there are too many moving parts to track.
You pretty much have to use 'ncutil', although you might be able to
get away with 'scutil' if you are determined.

> To solve this I (already) installed ncutils but, on Powerbook G4
> (Darwin 8.0), ncutils complains heavily and appears to work
> incorrectly (or did I do something wrong? It works fine in Darwin
> 7.0 + Mac OSX)

Perhaps.  Since you didn't give us anything to go on, we will find it
hard to diagnose the problems you are seeing.

Regards,

Justin

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 >Re: "search domain" define (From: Jeffrey Frey <email@hidden>)
 >Re: "search domain" define (From: "Toby D. Young" <email@hidden>)
 >Re: "search domain" define (From: "Justin C. Walker" <email@hidden>)



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