[9fans] alternative port with webfs?

Hi all, I'm working on something that will use http requests so I figured using webfs instead of reinventing the wheel might be a good idea, even though I've been hinted on #plan9 that it's far from perfect. My first try was to duplicate some code from /sys/src/cmd/webfs/webget.c and it seemed

Re: [9fans] alternative port with webfs?

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 12:18 AM, Mathieu lejat...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I'm working on something that will use http requests so I figured using webfs instead of reinventing the wheel might be a good idea, even though I've been hinted on #plan9 that it's far from perfect. My first try was

Re: [9fans] alternative port with webfs?

Ah it seems the tree I was using for 9vx was a bit old indeed. I've just pulled the latest webfs from sources and it's working fine now, thanks a lot. Cheers, Mathieu ---BeginMessage--- On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 12:18 AM, Mathieu lejat...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I'm working on something that

[9fans] [OT]: Differential Equations computer perfomance

Hi all http://www.longnow.org/views/essays/articles/ArtFeynman.php This article mentions of Richard Feynman analyzing the performance of the connection machine by formulating a set of partial differential equations. I was wondering if anyone knows of a paper that describes the method? I am

[9fans] log oversight

I've just built out a new Plan 9 cpu/auth server and noticed that others are able to write to the logs. Is this intentional or just an oversight? cpu% ls -l /sys/log a-rw-rw-rw- M 2936 syssys 0 Aug 3 2007 /sys/log/6in4 a-rw-rw-rw- M 2936 syssys 0 Apr 26 2002

Re: [9fans] log oversight

intentional. if you do a ls -ltm, you will see [none] would have updated smtp*, runq etc... upas/*, others run as none, and well... is it a shortcoming compared to unix world? these logs are not sacrosanct. On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 6:49 PM, Jeff Sickel j...@corpus-callosum.com wrote: I've just

Re: [9fans] log oversight

is it a shortcoming compared to unix world? these logs are not sacrosanct. linux typically uses log daemons to do the actual logging. unless they are encrypting all those channels, even from untrusted agents like smtp daemons, i don't know how you provide better security. actually plan 9 has

Re: [9fans] log oversight

note that those files are append-only. logs on unix are writeable by everyone: [rminn...@panzer ~]$ logger -p kern.err JUNK [rminn...@panzer ~]$ sudo tail -f /var/log/messages Mar 16 04:15:03 Panzer rminnich: JUNK ron

Re: [9fans] log oversight

On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 11:18 PM, ron minnich rminn...@gmail.com wrote: note that those files are append-only. logs on unix are writeable by everyone: [rminn...@panzer ~]$ logger -p kern.err JUNK [rminn...@panzer ~]$ sudo tail -f /var/log/messages Mar 16 04:15:03 Panzer rminnich: JUNK

Re: [9fans] log oversight

On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 08:49:50PM -0500, Jeff Sickel wrote: I've just built out a new Plan 9 cpu/auth server and noticed that others are able to write to the logs. Is this intentional or just an oversight? It is intentional, AFAIK. An alternative for the paranoid perhaps would be to make

Re: [9fans] log oversight

Hi! On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 11:55:39PM -0400, J.R. Mauro wrote: logs on unix are writeable by everyone: [rminn...@panzer ~]$ logger -p kern.err JUNK [rminn...@panzer ~]$ sudo tail -f /var/log/messages This didn't work on my linux box. I actually have: % ls -l /var/log/messages -rw---

Re: [9fans] log oversight

ah, not all are append only... cpu% ls -lm /sys/log/httpd/clf [jas] --rw-rw-rw- M 2936 sys sys 0 Mar 15 20:41 /sys/log/httpd/clf As for paranoia--just more proof I need to stop mucking w/ Linux and read more of the Plan 9 docs again. -jas