From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <33d3d09d10d03990f1102ffd1b115ebb@9netics.com> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] A few questions about plan 9 Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 13:39:34 -0800 From: Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: c1cc1114-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > First off, I've managed to connect to plan9 using drawterm from my > powerbook. I followed the instructions from http://www.cs.bell- > labs.com/wiki/plan9/Drawterm_to_your_terminal/diff.html which worked > very well - I do have a query though, it seems to imply that you have > to execute "echo 'key user=glenda dom=drawterm.test proto=p9sk1 ! > password=loginpassword' > /mnt/factotum/ctl" each time you reboot the > machine - is this true, or is this only required on the first use? check secstore(1) > > I'm also trying to look at my plan9.ini file, after searching the > internet, I have discovered that it's on a separate partition which > can be accessed using the 9fat: command, executing this command > though gives the error message: "mount: can't open /srv/dos: '/srv/ > dos' permission denied" - help?!? check dossrv(4) and look at the permissions on /srv/dos. it's most likey due to being drawterm-ed in with a different id than 'bootes', who owns things on the cpu. lastly check /rc/bin/9fat: (and friends) for more hints > One final question, what resources are there to learn about > development under plan9 - I've found bits & pieces, but I'd like to > know what is available. i find that reading the Plan9 sources is very educational. after that the contrib directory on sources is useful.