>i believe new directories in / are frowned upon

Understood, though 'bootes' or whoever has superuser-like permissions should still have unlimited abilities, right?
Or is this purely a function of the flags to mount the root?  On a side-note though, what is the preferred UNIX equivalent of /usr/local or /usr2?

However, permissions are still wrong somewhere, as I can't:
   cp /adm/timezone/US_Pacific /adm/timezone/local
per the last part of the installation instructions, which also yields a permission denied message, even while logged in under the 'out-of-the-box' user glenda.

Thanks again!


-----Original Message-----
From: 9fans-bounces@9fans.net on behalf of andrey mirtchovski
Sent: Wed 8/6/2008 5:24 PM
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
Subject: Re: [9fans] fossil permission checking
 
/ is indeed mounted without -c. if you want to create a directory in /
use /root. see 'nm' for how the namespace is constructed.

i believe new directories in / are frowned upon (even if created in
/root). i can't find the relevant message in the archives.

On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 6:10 PM, Benjamin Huntsman
<BHuntsman@mail2.cu-portland.edu> wrote:
> I'm having some trouble setting up a terminal (which will become a cpu/auth server).
> I've gotten the 9pccpuf kernel booted, and is running as the user bootes, but even from the server's console, if I type something as simple as "echo hi > /foo" I receive the message:
>
> mounted directory forbids creation
>
> I've basically followed the wiki pages on setting up a standalone auth/cpu server, though it's not getting me very far on the fossil side of things...  I chose all of the defaults during the install process,
>
> Can someone give me a quick tip as to how to set up a new cpu/fossil user that can actually write to something other than their home directory?
>
> Also, there's not exactly a command like UNIX's sudo, is there?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
>