Re: [9fans] what should 'fileserver' be set to in fossil?

[andrey mirtchovski <mirtchov@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>]

it's not set -- i've commented it out in /rc/bin/cpurc (the first line of
the long paste in my previous message illustrates that)..

it's also not set in /sys/lib/sysconfig/<myconfig>/boot


i've resorted for now to doing 'srv <fossil ip> kfs' and setting
'fileserver=kfs' in /rc/bin/cpurc, which shuts 'lp' up.

looking at how lp wants to connect to net!$fileserver!9fs and then mount it
at /n/$fileserver^'other' i suspect that 'fileserver=kfs' is a special case
that lp (or whatever's doing all those mounts) knows how to handle -- after
all it works fine if the name is 'kfs' and doesn't work fine if the name is
anything else, regardless of whether the /srv/ file descriptor points to a
kfs or a fossil file server:


plan9% fileserver=blah
plan9% srv plan9 blah # fossil
post...
plan9% man -P kfs
converting from troff to postscript...
mount: mount /n/blahother: '/n/blahother' does not exist
cannot mount /n/blahother filesystem
reading through postscript...
cannot find end of first line
plan9% fileserver=kfs
plan9% srv plan9 kfs  # again fossil, just use the right name
post...
plan9% man -P kfs     # works!
converting from troff to postscript...
reading through postscript...
plan9%

andrey

ps: sorry for being so wordy, just trying to explain as best as i can

On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, David Presotto wrote:

> What's the value of /env/fileserver when you're running fossil?
>