From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: andrey mirtchovski To: David Presotto Cc: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] what should 'fileserver' be set to in fossil? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 12:35:49 -0600 Topicbox-Message-UUID: df3f2d26-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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//boot i've resorted for now to doing 'srv 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? >