And of course, I forgot another question: 4. How to do the moral equivalent of shutdown -h now?
Thanks, Arnold ------------------------- [email protected] wrote: > Hello All. > > I've been a lurker on 9fans for many years. Today I finally did an > install - +9atom.iso.bz2 into a virtual box VM. The VM is NAT'ed > to a corporate network and I can ping by IP address with no problem. > > First questions. > > 0. How to see my IP address? Cat a file in /net/... somewhere? > > 1. How to change the hostname - just edit /rc/bin/termrc and choose > whatever I want to echo into /dev/sysname? Will that get reflected > back out to the corporate net via DHCP? > > 2. How to use DHCP to get to the corporate DNS servers? (This worked > pretty much OOTB on the labs dist, but I think that 9atom will be > the better match for the work we want to do.) Right now all > hostname lookups (via ping) fail. > > Unrelated: > > 3. I would like to generate a PDF (or even .PS file) of Volume 1 of the > manual. What's in the dist has dates from over 10 years ago. I tried > running 'mk print.out' in the manual directory (as glenda) but got > an error. (Erik - can you do that automatically as part of your build > process? :-) So. How can I produce such a file suitable for duplex > printing? (Bonus points if the intro(N) page of each section comes > out first. :-) > > Please go easy on the Plan 9 newbie who has to unlearn 30+ years > of Unix habits. > > Thanks! > > Arnold
