From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Message-Id: <200006211709.NAA16852@akbar.nevex.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] plan9 networking trouble.
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 21 Jun 2000 15:58:40 GMT."
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Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 13:09:44 -0400
From: Steve Kotsopoulos <steve@nevex.com>
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Wladimir Mutel wrote:
> > On a terminal, boot completes by exec'ing /$objtype/init -t
> > On a cpuserver, it exec's /$objtype/init -c
> > This causes init to run termrc or cpurc
>
> 	Thank you, I read all related mans and now understand booting process
> 	some better. But in order to set 'service', do we need to rebuild
> 	the kernel or we may simply write this setting in plan9.ini ?

If you wanted to change this, you'd have to modify the kernel source.
I really can't understand why you'd want to change it, though
as you'll likely break things farther down the chain.

Look at /sys/src/9/pc/main.c, you'll find:

                if(cpuserver)
                        ksetenv("service", "cpu");
                else
                        ksetenv("service", "terminal");

The value of cpuserver gets set in the kernel config file,
/sys/src/9/pc/pc or /sys/src/9/pc/pccpu

> 	And to help the beginner, is there any way to restart only
> 	terminal server and log on as another user, without rebooting the
> 	complete system ?

no, you must reboot the terminal to login as a different user

the terminal's username (and their password) is prompted for by boot(8)
and then used to connect to the fileserver.