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Date: Tue,  8 May 2007 22:44:43 +0200
From: "Federico Benavento" <benavento@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] replica/pull -s / -v /dist/replica/network and rc error
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exactly, because diskparts does
sysname='{cat /dev/sysname}

On 5/8/07, Martin Neubauer <m.ne@gmx.net> wrote:
> * Federico G. Benavento (benavento@gmail.com) wrote:
> > diskparts (which is run by termrc) needs that /dev/sysname to
> > be set and because it isn't you get that error.
>
> I don't think that is quite correct. The error is indeed caused by an empty
> sysname, but happens in termrc after diskparts is run. It probably bails at
> the line
>
> if(test -e /cfg/$sysname/termrc)
>
>
> > add "sys=yourmachine ether=yournickmacaddr" to your /lib/ndb/local
> > to find out yourmacaddr cat /net/ether0/addr.
> >
> >
> > Federico G. Benavento
>


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Federico G. Benavento