Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!me!sun
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
From: sun@me.utoronto.ca (Andy Sun Anu-guest)
Subject: Merged Registries Need Help
Message-ID: <1990Feb16.124647.889@me.toronto.edu>
Followup-To: comp.sys.apollo 
Reply-To: sun@me.utoronto.ca (Andy Sun)
Organization: University of Toronto, Department of Industrial Engineering
Date: 16 Feb 90 17:46:47 GMT

Hi Net:

Another problem pops up recently which I think is a quite nasty one. I
hope some of you could enlighten on ways to remedifying it.

We have two Apollo rings in the department, one ring consists of a DN3500
and a DN4000 (Ring A). Another ring consists of a DN3500 and two DN3000s
(Ring B). They are both connected to the Ethernet, with both DN3500s as 
servers. I ran rgy_merge on Ring B's DN35000

	rgy_merge -from (Ring B server name)

and the final result is that Ring B's registry was overwritten by Ring
A's. The next thing that I did was to change the root password back to
the original one in Ring B. This somehow alters the one in Ring A also!
I've rebooted Ring B and things seems to be back to normal again for
Ring B (registry back to original). 

The problem is the registry of Ring A is now a mess (looks like it to me).
I couldn't su to root even I am in wheel group. And the mailer cannot
deliver received mails to the right user (it couldn't seem to locate the
user id.). Does anybody know what's happening? Is there a way to fix 
this? Any help will be appreciated before I phone up Apollo in the States.

Andy