Re: [9fans] FileServer grid

2009-02-09 Thread Giacomo Tesio
Have you done a literature search? I don't get the feeling that you have. You are right, I searched over the net only about Plan 9 filesystem replication and so... But I was always searching for a plan 9 based solution. I already have some alternative solution (linux based), but I would

Re: [9fans] UPAS, IMAP, and SMTP

2009-02-09 Thread Steve Simon
Re outgoing mail via gmail. I haven't used gmail for a while but when I did I used this as the last line of my /mail/lib/remotemail. # exec /bin/upas/smtp -d -a -h quintile.net net!smtp.gmail.com quint...@gmail.com $* You will also need to set up your TLS certificate, I think this is covered

[9fans] APE vsnprintf return value bug

2009-02-09 Thread Nathaniel W Filardo
There seems to be some disagreement about vsnprintf()'s return code, in a way that's breaking my attempts to get git building on Plan 9. The manual on my Linux box says: The functions snprintf() and vsnprintf() do not write more than size bytes (including the trailing '\0'). If the output

Re: [9fans] APE vsnprintf return value bug

2009-02-09 Thread Steve Simon
I don't have a copy of the ISO 9899:1990 but Plauger's The Standard C Library has excerpts from it. In one of these it states: ``The vfprintf function returns the number of characters transmitted, or a negative value if an output error occured'' As APE does take great pains to be

[9fans] Web interface to '/n/sources/contrib' gone??

2009-02-09 Thread cej
? ++pac

Re: [9fans] Plan9's Price?

2009-02-09 Thread Anthony Sorace
Plan 9 can be downloaded free of charge from: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9 If you're after nice printed manuals and a pressed CD, see: http://www.vitanuova.com/cgi-bin/order.pl?PRODUCTSET=PLAN9 The listed price is £38, €45.42, or $75.00. You used to be able to get just the CD or just the

Re: [9fans] Web interface to '/n/sources/contrib' gone??

2009-02-09 Thread Pietro Gagliardi
On Feb 9, 2009, at 5:09 AM, c...@gli.cas.cz wrote: ? ++pac This is my only concern over the whole sources is gone thing; this time the web interface has been down for longer than usual (two weeks, maybe more?).

Re: [9fans] UPAS, IMAP, and SMTP

2009-02-09 Thread Akshat Kumar
2009/2/9 Steve Simon st...@quintile.net: Re outgoing mail via gmail. I haven't used gmail for a while but when I did I used this as the last line of my /mail/lib/remotemail. # exec /bin/upas/smtp -d -a -h quintile.net net!smtp.gmail.com quint...@gmail.com $* This much is fine. However,

[9fans] 'Vidi'?

2009-02-09 Thread Venkatesh Srinivas
Hi, Is the program Vidi (presented at IWP9) available any place? I have been searching for a copy for some time but have never happened to run across it... Thanks, -- vs

Re: [9fans] UPAS, IMAP, and SMTP

2009-02-09 Thread Gabriel Díaz López de la Llave
Hello i think you should use a $site with a fqdn or factotum should have your user / password to use with smtp.gmail.com (smtp needs that key in order to authenticate you againts gmail i think). slds. gabi El 09/02/2009, a las 13:12, Akshat Kumar escribió: 2009/2/9 Steve Simon

[9fans] P9P venti/copy bug?

2009-02-09 Thread Venkatesh Srinivas
Hi, When I use venti/copy from plan 9 port to try to copy certain archives between two venti servers, I get the following error: vcopy: reading block (type 16): read asked for got

Re: [9fans] Web interface to '/n/sources/contrib' gone??

2009-02-09 Thread erik quanstrom
This is my only concern over the whole sources is gone thing; this time the web interface has been down for longer than usual (two weeks, maybe more?). not true. i just tried it an http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/ comes up instantly. perhaps your machine is on the fritz? - erik

Re: [9fans] UPAS, IMAP, and SMTP

2009-02-09 Thread akumar
This was indeed the key. Thanks! ak ---BeginMessage--- Hello i think you should use a $site with a fqdn or factotum should have your user / password to use with smtp.gmail.com (smtp needs that key in order to authenticate you againts gmail i think). slds. gabi El 09/02/2009, a las

Re: [9fans] UPAS, IMAP, and SMTP

2009-02-09 Thread erik quanstrom
i think you should use a $site with a fqdn or factotum should have rfc 2822 requires a resolvable domain name. while many hosts send fairly random ehlo strings, it's not legal and worse, a good hint that the machine may be a spam bot. nupas/smtpd either hangs up on a client with a bogus

Re: [9fans] Plan9's Price?

2009-02-09 Thread Charles Forsyth
If you're after nice printed manuals and a pressed CD, see: http://www.vitanuova.com/cgi-bin/order.pl?PRODUCTSET=PLAN9 The listed price is £38, €45.42, or $75.00. hang on and it should be cheaper, once i work out the underlying perl(!) script to get it working with the e-checkout system.

Re: [9fans] nupas mk install bug

2009-02-09 Thread matt
/n/sources/contrib/quanstro/src/imap.c? replace fs/imap.c with this file and recompile. I found one in /n/sources/contrib/quanstro/imap.c and used that and it worked 99% I got a panic (attached) but when I tried to reproduce it the message had gone. It was a notice from ebay but none

Re: [9fans] UPAS, IMAP, and SMTP

2009-02-09 Thread lucio
EHLO plan9 the connection is lost and upas tries again -- something is amiss. I seem to recall that MTAs are set to demand a full FQDN for the EHLO message? I guess GMAIL could send you some explanatory message. ++L

Re: [9fans] nupas mk install bug

2009-02-09 Thread erik quanstrom
thanks for the report. can you send me a snap(6) of the broken process? - erik

Re: [9fans] P9P venti/copy bug?

2009-02-09 Thread Russ Cox
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 4:56 AM, Venkatesh Srinivas m...@acm.jhu.edu wrote: vcopy: reading block (type 16): read asked for got da39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709 The real question is how you got an archive

Re: [9fans] P9P venti/copy bug?

2009-02-09 Thread Venkatesh Srinivas
On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 08:48:33AM -0800, Russ Cox wrote: On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 4:56 AM, Venkatesh Srinivas m...@acm.jhu.edu wrote: vcopy: reading block (type 16): read asked for got

Re: [9fans] Web interface to '/n/sources/contrib' gone??

2009-02-09 Thread Nicola Gagliardi
I'm talking about the web interface to /n/sources/contrib, which is http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/contrib/. That has been down for two weeks. On Monday, February 09, 2009, at 08:08AM, Bruce Ellis bruce.el...@gmail.com wrote: I will not comment - I've been asked to leave 95% boy alone.

[9fans] Google Summer of code 2009

2009-02-09 Thread hugo rivera
I heard that there will be a GSoC this year, are there any plans to get plan 9 as a mentoring organization? -- Saludos Hugo

[9fans] Plan 9 summer of code

2009-02-09 Thread Juan M. Mendez
I recently received a mail from a spanish student asking for a summer of code project to work with, related to virtualization, cloud computing, etc... I was going to point him to see at plan9, but I don't know if there is a summer of code application this year. Any news with this? --

Re: [9fans] UPAS, IMAP, and SMTP

2009-02-09 Thread Akshat Kumar
Is it possible to move mail from one GMail label to another, using UPAS FS? I'd like to do the equivalent of archiving (moving stuff from Inbox to 9fans, etc.). I tried Acme Mail's `Save', but that only operates in /mail/box/$user/ it seems -- as opposed to /mail/fs. ak

Re: [9fans] UPAS, IMAP, and SMTP

2009-02-09 Thread erik quanstrom
On Mon Feb 9 22:45:43 EST 2009, aku...@mail.nanosouffle.net wrote: Is it possible to move mail from one GMail label to another, using UPAS FS? no. labels are not supported. of archiving (moving stuff from Inbox to 9fans, etc.). I tried Acme Mail's `Save', but that only operates in

Re: [9fans] FileServer grid

2009-02-09 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Feb 7, 2009, at 9:32 AM, Giacomo Tesio wrote: I'd like to move our softwares to Linux + Apache (where mounting a 9p fileserver would be easy), but actually it's a Windows + IIS. I would write a session state service for ASP.NET connecting it in 9p (using c# and the 9pc implementation

Re: [9fans] UPAS, IMAP, and SMTP

2009-02-09 Thread Tom Lieber
2009/2/9 Akshat Kumar aku...@mail.nanosouffle.net: Is it possible to move mail from one GMail label to another, using UPAS FS? I'd like to do the equivalent of archiving (moving stuff from Inbox to 9fans, etc.). I tried Acme Mail's `Save', but that only operates in /mail/box/$user/ it seems

Re: [9fans] Web interface to '/n/sources/contrib' gone??

2009-02-09 Thread Bruce Ellis
9fs not good enough for you? what operating system are you using? brucee On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 5:26 AM, Nicola Gagliardi pietr...@mac.com wrote: I'm talking about the web interface to /n/sources/contrib, which is http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/contrib/. That has been down for two weeks.

Re: [9fans] UPAS, IMAP, and SMTP

2009-02-09 Thread Akshat Kumar
Ah. Just grabbing the 9fans label via GMail IMAP, with 540 or so messages, was horrible enough -- I can't imagine how horrible dealing with the All Mail label might be, just to move a few messages around. ak ---BeginMessage--- 2009/2/9 Akshat Kumar aku...@mail.nanosouffle.net: Is it possible to

Re: [9fans] Web interface to '/n/sources/contrib' gone??

2009-02-09 Thread Pietro Gagliardi
I'm trying to transfer files from my Plan 9 virtual PC to Mac OS X for printing; QEMU has no USB yet and SAMBA fails on Mac OS X Leopard. I print on systems without plan9ports, and where I have no development tools (so I can't build it). Right now I've been using my FTP server, but it

Re: [9fans] Web interface to '/n/sources/contrib' gone??

2009-02-09 Thread sqweek
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Pietro Gagliardi pietr...@mac.com wrote: I'm trying to transfer files from my Plan 9 virtual PC to Mac OS X for printing; QEMU has no USB yet and SAMBA fails on Mac OS X Leopard. I print on systems without plan9ports, and where I have no development tools (so I

Re: [9fans] Web interface to '/n/sources/contrib' gone??

2009-02-09 Thread Bruce Ellis
Anything wrong with the Live CD? Or doesn't an Apple PC cope. If you want to complain about qemu, again, this is not the right mailing list - 95% of the time. brucee On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 3:31 PM, sqweek sqw...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Pietro Gagliardi

Re: [9fans] UPAS, IMAP, and SMTP

2009-02-09 Thread Akshat Kumar
Ah, it seems that if I conduct echo open /imaps/... /mail/fs/ctl from within Acme, and then load up Mail, it's much slower than doing the same outside and starting Mail within Acme. Not sure why. Regardless, my appologies for prematurely calling the application slow. ☺ However,

Re: [9fans] Web interface to '/n/sources/contrib' gone??

2009-02-09 Thread Bruce Ellis
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