From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.1 required=5.0 tests=DATE_IN_PAST_06_12 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 8746 invoked from network); 6 Apr 2021 10:17:57 -0000 Received: from 1ess.inri.net (216.126.196.35) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 6 Apr 2021 10:17:57 -0000 Received: from orthanc.ca ([208.79.93.154]) by 1ess; Mon Apr 5 22:14:23 -0400 2021 Received: from orthanc.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by orthanc.ca (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 83e5c3b6; Mon, 5 Apr 2021 19:14:18 -0700 (PDT) From: "Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)" To: 9front@9front.org, Mack Wallace In-reply-to: <01000178a33d0f3b-ec840ea8-201f-432f-a5a5-b13993a12dba-000000@email.amazonses.com> References: <01000178a33d0f3b-ec840ea8-201f-432f-a5a5-b13993a12dba-000000@email.amazonses.com> Comments: In-reply-to Mack Wallace message dated "Mon, 05 Apr 2021 18:13:11 -0000." MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <84455.1617675258.1@orthanc.ca> Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2021 19:14:18 -0700 Message-ID: List-ID: <9front.9front.org> List-Help: X-Glyph: ➈ X-Bullshit: SOAP rails storage lifecycle-aware database Subject: Re: [9front] Is there a way to extend telnet through rexport? Reply-To: 9front@9front.org Precedence: bulk Mack Wallace writes: > > I have a number of different sites which each have numerous disparate = > systems that need to be administered - essentially by moving files = > around. I want to use Plan9/9front to consolidate these systems at each = > site and present them as a file structure on a server in the main = > office. So essentially each location has its own subdirectory, and each = > system as that site is represented by a subdirectory below that. Depending on how 'disparate' those machines are, you might get surprisingly close to your goal by running u9fs on the target hosts. That, combined with a bit of ssh glue on the Plan9 side, will let you import arbitrary filesystem trees from remote UNIX-like hosts. It's not completely seamless, and you'll have to accept some very basic 'all or nothing' permissions -- the exported filesystems will have the permissions of the uid/gid running u9fs. But you can get a surprising amount of work done with this model, despite the restrictions. Several years ago I ran a setup like that to remotely monitor and administer about a half dozen sites scattered all over the place; it worked remarkably well, even if it wasn't the most blazingly fast for network I/O. Since then the Plan9 ssh implementations have changed, so what I had before no longer works. But, my lack of motivation to fix bitrot aside, there's no reason I (read 'you') couldn't build something like that today. --lyndon