Re: [9fans] multiple acme instances with plan9port

[Ethan Burns <burns.ethan@gmail.com>]

On Wednesday, November 7, 2012 9:55:34 AM UTC-5, Ruslan Khusnullin wrote:
> Hi!
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> I'm using acme from plan9port on ubuntu linux.
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> I tried running multiple acmes in Inferno and it works fine, didn't try it in Plan9 but guess it works too.
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> When I try to start acme (having one instance running) I get an error:
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> ; /usr/local/plan9/bin/acme
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> 9pserve: announce unix!/tmp/ns.r.:0/acme: Address already in use
> acme: can't post service: 9pserve failed
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> ; namespace
> /tmp/ns.r.:0
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> ; ll `namespace
> total 0
> srwxr-xr-x 1 r r 0 Nov  7 12:23 acme=
> srwxr-xr-x 1 r r 0 Nov  7 12:23 plumb=
> srwx------ 1 r r 0 Nov  7 12:21 wmii=
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> How do you run multiple acme instances with plan9port? Is it possible at all (considering plan9port lacks true namespaces support)?
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> I need more than one acme because I have not very big display (19") but please don't suggest buying a bigger display ;)

It's a work around, but when I need multiple acmes I use "ssh -X localhost" and open an acme from there.

Best,
Ethan