Re: [9fans] 9P on linux

[sqweek <sqweek@gmail.com>]

On Jan 14, 2008 6:56 PM,  <jhutchence@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am having trouble getting 9P working on my linux box. Firstly u9fs:
> I have followed the directions on http://www.t3x.org/bits/plan9_on_u9fs.html
> and put put this line in /etc/inetd.conf
>
> u9fs    stream  tcp     nowait  root    /root/bin/u9fs  u9fs -Dz -a
> p9any /scratch/p9root
>
> the only client I have even been able to run is this one:
> http://www.lava.net/~newsham/plan9/

 I'd recommend running with p9p[1] for testing. Here's my setup (wren
is the server, nightingale the client):
wren:/etc/inetd.conf:31:564     stream  tcp     nowait  root
/usr/local/bin/u9fs     u9fs -a p9any

nightingale$ 9 factotum
nightingale$ srv -a wren
Adding key for proto=p9sk1 authdom=sqweek.dnsdojo.org ...
User [sqweek]:
Password: *********

nightingale$ 9p ls wren/home
d-rwxr-xr-x M 0 sqweek  users 1024 Jan 10 16:43 sqweek

 Brief explanation - "9 factotum" starts up the password manager (for
lack of a better term), and "srv -a wren" starts an authenticated
connection to my server (via tcp on port 564, since I didn't specify).
Both of these commands place a socket in my 'namespace' directory,
/tmp/ns.sqweek.:0, for further communication. srv then communicates
with factotum to achieve authentication, and finally the 9p command
uses the "wren" socket that srv created. I also mount it with
9p2000.ko using "mount -t 9p -o proto=unix,noextend
/tmp/ns.sqweek.:0/wren /home/sqweek/n/wren".

[1] http://swtch.com/plan9port/