From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] standalone cpu server wiki From: mirtchov@cpsc.ucalgary.ca In-Reply-To: <200401211853.19584.jhorey@cs.unm.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 19:20:17 -0700 Topicbox-Message-UUID: bd49a3f8-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 the wiki is relatively up-to-date. give it a shot and if you see any problems try the 9fans archives. cpu servers are very easy -- all they need to know is where the auth and file servers are (auth= and fs= settings in plan9.ini). installing a file server takes a bit more work. in your case (when you don't need a standalone auth/cpu/fs server) I'd say your standard installation could very easily be turned into a file server by telling fossil to listen to the right port and starting keyfs and listen on service.auth from cpurc: auth/keyfs -wp -m /mnt/keys /adm/keys >/dev/null >[2=1] aux/listen -q -t /rc/bin/service.auth -d /rc/bin/service tcp still do check the documentation on the wiki -- there are some details like compiling an auth/cpu server kernel that you may want to get right... the standalone file server refers to the old Plan 9 file server written by Ken Thompson -- it's the one described in all the papers. fossil is a replacement which doesn't require that you dedicate an entire machine to it (the main machine at ucalgary serves as both an auth and file server, and allows me to login to it). the 'kfs' file server was used as a standalone plan9 terminal before fossil was written. my advice is to start by adding menuconfig to plan9.ini (see the man page) so that you can go choose and boot an old kernel you know works whenever there's something broken in the new one -- having a sane /rc/bin/termrc when you're editing /rc/bin/cpurc may save you a few hours of grief :) andrey > Hello everybody, > > I am going to attempt to install a Plan 9 network with two CPU servers, one > fileserver, and of course one terminal. I've never done this before, so I was > wondering if anybody knew if the Wiki page for installing a standalone CPU > server was up to date. Also is the Wiki page for "Installing a Plan 9 File > Server" still relevant? The Wiki paged mentioned > "that this is for a stand alone fileserver. The new (Jan 2003) Fossil > fileserver is described in setting_up_fossil". What advantages does Fossil > offer over what this page describes? Thanks for anybody that can offer > advice! > > -James Horey