[9fans] Staying up to Date

[9fans] Staying up to Date

[John Boutland]

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

Re: [9fans] Staying up to Date

[andrey mirtchovski]

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
>