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From: "andrey mirtchovski" <mirtchovski@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Staying up to Date
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 18:49:33 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <14ec7b180607261749q109bfff0gc571d248692c339d@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44C80AB2.9040000@exemail.com.au>

you must have a rather old system.

try this:

srv -nq tcp!sources.cs.bell-labs.com sources /n/sources

which should allow you to connect without having to authenticate. then
you can pull.

On 7/26/06, John Boutland <boutland@exemail.com.au> wrote:
> I recently installed Plan9 and am enjoying getting to know more about
> it. The "Staying up to Date" documentation refers to the use of "pull"
> for on-line updating. Executing this produces a request for a user name
> and password, which I do not have. The same applies to 9fs. Earlier
> Plan9 documentation says that an update account is required and that
> instructions to obtain this are to be found at
> http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/newaccount.html. This page is
> apparently no longer available and I'm unable to find any reference as
> to how to go about obtaining such an account.
> Any help would be appreciated.
> John
>


      reply	other threads:[~2006-07-27  0:49 UTC|newest]

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2006-07-27  0:37 John Boutland
2006-07-27  0:49 ` andrey mirtchovski [this message]

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