RE: [9fans] How to change UserID/Group to edit files in /lib/ndb?

["Retzki, Sascha [Xplain]" <sascha.retzki@xplain.de>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christian Walther [mailto:cptsalek@gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 3:34 PM
> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
> Subject: Re: [9fans] How to change UserID/Group to edit files in /lib/ndb?
> 
> Hi Fans,
> 
> thank you for all your answers. I did as Russ suggested and now
> everything works fine. My next task will be to go through all the
> documents found in the wiki, but I have to admit that this is a rather
> painfull task for a newbie. I'm to Unix and as such I'm used to read
> manpages and other sources of information. But it's sometimes
> difficult to locate the piece of information needed to perform a
> certain task, especially if one doesn't know how to perform a certain
> task.
> I read some of the papers found on Plan 9s website, but it's just
> theory as long as one doesn't really work with/on a system.
> 
> Because of this, my idea would be to extend the information in the
> Wiki to some sort of "First steps with Plan 9" document. 

What about calling it "Plan9 for Unix users"? I am under the impression
90% of Plan9 beginners (including myself, btw ;-)) are Unix-users.

> This is not
> only about basic information but about "best practices", too. There
> are several ways of performing a certain task most of the time, but it
> needs some experience to figure out which way is the best. When this
> experience is provided by long term Plan 9 users, this can give
> newbies an impression how to work with it.
> 

Amen. The problem is not to find a problem, but to find a solution ;-)

I know some 9fans from IRC (freenode), among those some persons that
succeeded in understanding Plan9 (enough to work with it), are unix-users
and want to write Documentation of this purpose - of course, wanting
to work, finding time to work and doing the work are three different
things (again, including myself)