From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) In-Reply-To: <0276a048d2f5b82ef6db1888adebd304@swtch.com> References: <0276a048d2f5b82ef6db1888adebd304@swtch.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Frank Gleason Subject: Re: [9fans] newaccount.html has gone missing Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 18:22:01 -0800 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 045c8054-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 I found it while trying to figure out why pull was driving my crazy. The 'Staying up to Date' page needs some updating. On Feb 19, 2006, at 11:20 AM, Russ Cox wrote: >> http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/newaccount.html >> 'The object plan9/newaccount.html does not exist on this server.' > > where did you find this link? i thought i removed > all the ones on the bell-labs site. as i mentioned in > the email to 9fans about the new web site, accounts > are no longer needed, so the account-creation > mechanisms are turned off. > >> The problem is that that somewhat breaks patch(1), it still >> works but spills a bunch of errors because it can't chmod >> any files, and it shows up as created by none. > > then please submit a patch for patch. patches need to be > possible to create as none. > >>> you need to run 9fs sources; mount /srv/sources /n/sources >> Question is, should we change patch(1) to do that? > > definitely not. patches need to be possible to create as none. > i think people with sources accounts should just change their > /rc/bin/9fs scripts. it's a good exercise. > >> I'll confess that I still use an authenticating mount for sources. >> It does seem that sources accounts still serve a purpose, so perhaps >> they ought to be optionally available. > > the auto-account-creator was a clumsy hack that was > difficult to maintain. we were only using accounts as > proof-of-clickthrough. now that the clickthrough is gone, > the need for accounts is gone too. > > we'll still create accounts as necessary for people who > need to write to sources (e.g., in contrib or other places). > frequent patch submitters are welcome to ask too. > > russ