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From: arnold@skeeve.com
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Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 08:49:22 -0600
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Subject: Re: [9fans] first questions from a lurker
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And of course, I forgot another question:

4. How to do the moral equivalent of shutdown -h now?

Thanks,

Arnold
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arnold@skeeve.com wrote:

> Hello All.
>
> I've been a lurker on 9fans for many years. Today I finally did an
> install - +9atom.iso.bz2 into a virtual box VM.  The VM is NAT'ed
> to a corporate network and I can ping by IP address with no problem.
>
> First questions.
>
> 0. How to see my IP address? Cat a file in /net/... somewhere?
>
> 1. How to change the hostname - just edit /rc/bin/termrc and choose
>    whatever I want to echo into /dev/sysname?  Will that get reflected
>    back out to the corporate net via DHCP?
>
> 2. How to use DHCP to get to the corporate DNS servers?  (This worked
>    pretty much OOTB on the labs dist, but I think that 9atom will be
>    the better match for the work we want to do.)  Right now all
>    hostname lookups (via ping) fail.
>
> Unrelated:
>
> 3. I would like to generate a PDF (or even .PS file) of Volume 1 of the
> manual. What's in the dist has dates from over 10 years ago. I tried
> running 'mk print.out' in the manual directory (as glenda) but got
> an error.  (Erik - can you do that automatically as part of your build
> process? :-)  So. How can I produce such a file suitable for duplex
> printing? (Bonus points if the intro(N) page of each section comes
> out first. :-)
>
> Please go easy on the Plan 9 newbie who has to unlearn 30+ years
> of Unix habits.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Arnold