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Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 13:54:02 +0200
From: "Francisco J Ballesteros" <nemo@lsub.org>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: CPU Server
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Also, you may setup sysname in your plan9.ini. For CPU servers we do that,
so that the machines know at least their names even if we screw things up.

On 8/17/07, Francisco J Ballesteros <nemo@lsub.org> wrote:
> AFAIK, /rc/bin/cpurc now calls
> /cfg/$sysname/cpurc.local
> for local setup at $sysname.
>
> Thus, if it's enough for you just to start several custom stuff at $sysname,
> just create your
> /cfg/$sysname/cpurc.local.
>
> But otherwise, just do what is more simple for your site and does the job.
> We still keep a single /bin/cpurc for all our cpu severs and that works fine.
> Only that we have to keep an eye on changes made to cpurc in sources just
> in case we have to update ours.
>
> hth
>
> On 8/17/07, kix@kix.es <kix@kix.es> wrote:
> > Geoff,
> >
> > thanks for your time. Probably I am a dummy, but I have tree files:
> >
> > /rc/bin/cpurc
> > /rc/bin/cpurc.local
> > /cfg/example/cpurc
> >
> > The /rc/bin/cpurc is more complete than /cfg/example/cpurc, and I use it
> > other times
> > to create the cpuserver.
> > Probably is better to create a /cfg/example/cpurc and a
> > /cfg/example/cpurc.local
> > (this file do not exist) very complete,
> > modify them and copy to /rc/bin/cpurc*.
> >
> > In short, I do not what to do, because if I edit the /cfg/example/cpurc and
> > overwrite /rc/bin/cpurc, probably I will lost some data.
> >
> > In the other hand, in the wiki, you can read "dircp /cfg/example to
> > /cfg/$sysname,
> > and cd /cfg/$sysname and edit cpurc*"
> > normally, the $sysname is empty (I do not setup it) and cpurc* is only
> > cpurc, the
> > cpurc.local is not in /cfg/example".
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > kix.
> >
> >
>