Re: [9fans] making yourself at home

[frank@inua.be (Frank Lenaerts)]

On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 12:05:49AM +0200, Gabriel Diaz wrote:
> hello

Hello,

> i tried to answer your questions one by one, but will choose to do it
> the short way:
>
> http://cm.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/

I have read some of the documents but not all of them like "getting
started" docs;-)

> take a look to this man pages too:
> ns(1)

Ok, thanks, missed this one.

> bind(1)

Read about that one.

> timesync(8)

Had not seen this one. First used it to sync with a local NTP proxy,
which worked fine but of course didn't "survive" a reboot. Then wanted
to add the command to /rc/bin/termrc and noticed that the termrc
script used the -r option in TIMESYNCARGS. As this system has always
been running Debian GNU/Linux, the system clock was in GMT instead of
local time. Removed the -r and now the mapping is ok.

Is there actually something like hwclock (to directly set, read the HW
clock) in Plan 9?

> that will explain your security and multi-user questions, the mount
> question and may be fixes your time problems.
>
> slds

Kind regards,

> gabi

Frank

> On 6/7/07, Frank Lenaerts <frank@inua.be> wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >After installing Plan 9 on a standalone machine, adding a user,
> >configuring the network, wandering around a bit, reading some
> >manpages, ... I have a few questions for which I didn't find an
> >answer. They seem stupid, so I might have missed some important
> >documentation. If so, just point me to the docs, if not, an
> >explanation is welcome;-)
> >
>
>
>
>
> >Here are my questions:
> >
> >- Living in Belgium, I copied /adm/timezone/CET to
> >  /adm/timezone/local. However, time is still off by 2 hours. It seems
> >  that the system is using GMT (normally, CET = GMT + 1; in summertime
> >  (now), CET = GMT + 2). Is the CET file "wrong" or so?
> >
> >- After creating a new user, the new user does not (yet) have a
> >  password. Apparently, I cannot use auth/changeuser because I don't
> >  have an auth server (the system is setup as a "terminal" whereas I
> >  would normally consider it a "workstation") and passwd gives me
> >  "protocol botch: cs: can't translate service".
> >
> >- How do I logout to let another user login?
> >
> >- Is there something like "su" to let me be someone else in another
> >  window?
> >
> >- How do I stop rio to get to textmode?
> >
> >- Can I somehow lock the screen?
> >
> >- I noticed that users glenda, adm and none don't have a password (by
> >  default). These users can however change the timezone, reboot the
> >  machine, ...
> >
> >- What is the purpose of the different users like (a) glenda (seems to
> >  be hostowner, can create users, etc.), (b) adm, (c) none?
> >
> >  [*] is part of the sys group but could not change /rc/bin/termrc
> >  because he couldn't write to /tmp (no profile like a normal user
> >  binding /tmp to /home/tmp; I suppose he can do this interactively)
> >
> >- Is there something like virtual consoles to allow e.g.  several
> >  users to login simultaneously and each starting a graphical
> >  environment?
> >
> >- Is there something like a plain "mount" command, just to see all
> >  bindings?
> >
> >
> >cu,
> >
> >--
> >Frank Lenaerts ---------------------------------------- frank@inua.be
> >
> >

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Frank Lenaerts ---------------------------------------- frank@inua.be