Re: [9fans] a small error in /rc/bin/cpurc

[Joshua Wood <josh@utopian.net>]

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> But... unfortunately I don't have spare machine to run Plan9 native.
> I must run Plan9 in VMware player.

Well understood. We use a virtual machine product ourselves for  
terminals and for testing.

While you might not utilize all the possibilities of network  
management with Plan 9 because you're on vmware, I think my first  
sentence still applies: It appears you've found a good reason to make  
a little, one-time edit to your ndb file. If you're running as a cpu  
server for any good reason, you're going to want to set at least a  
few values in ndb to help the system work smoothly. Things like the  
value of $cpu, authserver, and fileserver for terminals, for starters.

If you're running as a cpu server in a vm just to log in at the  
console, not run any terminals or even drawterms, and you like  
termrc, I'm not sure I understand why you're even running a cpu  
kernel for your current purposes.

Lastly, I may be missing something, but it seems like if you make  
your call to ip/ipconfig to get your DHCP-provided ip address in  
either of /bin/cpurc.local or /cfg/$sysname/cpurc, you would achieve  
your desired behavior when the /bin/cpurc invocation of ndb/dns -r  
happens.

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Josh