From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@9fans.net Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:53:32 -0400 From: a@9srv.net In-Reply-To: <1219823269-sup-1399@neocybil.x1024.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Export local plumber to remote unix host? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 092e870a-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Let me make sure I understand the problem right: you have p9p installed on two Unix boxes, A and B. Sitting at A, you ssh to B to read your mail, and want to be able to plumb (or something similar) attachments and have applications on A display them. I presume you're also using non-p9p applications to view the attachments. If that's right, the problem is in two parts: having B feed messages to the plumber on B, and having B find the files referenced. You can probably make the terminal mount the server; do so. How doesn't matter: v9fs, fuse, nfs, afp, whatever. Just get it at, say, /mnt/B. Make a plumbing rule that checks for files in /mnt/B (after the normal check for files). You want arg isfile /mnt/B/$1 or something very similar in that rule. Now when you plumb /home/me/attachment1, after not finding that file locally your plumber will look for /mnt/B/home/me/attachment1. Have the 'plumb start' bit call open or OpenOffice or whatnot. For the other part, rather than trying to figure out how to pass messages around (which is easy if you can mount A from B: just set $NAMESPACE to /mnt/A/whatever; but you likely can't do that), just use the local plumber in the first place. For example, 9term's "plumb" menu item (like plan9's rio) will just feed things to a local plumber. If you've set the plumbing rule up as described above, that's all you need. (If you're using pine or something that 9term isn't up to, I'm told there's an "rxvt-unicode extension for plumbing", but I didn't know what "rxvt-unicode" was before being told that, so I can't speak any more to it. ask in #plan9 on freenode.) If, for whatever reason, you need to do something like "!plumb" from mail (and can't mount A from B), things are harder for you. A fake plumber to shuttle bytes to A is probably doable, but it's likely a lot less work to figure out how to use a local plumber instead. Anthony