Re: [9fans] remedial sources auth, connect, and mount in plan9port

2009-10-01 Thread Venkatesh Srinivas
Hi, In order to construct an authenticated mount of sources, you will need to start factotum, use srv -a to create an auth-ed connection to the server and to post it, and to mount the posted connection. (assuming you have a working plan9port install and are on a unix): $ 9 factotum (start

Re: [9fans] 9atom.iso

2009-10-01 Thread baux80
On 29 September 2009 at 14:21, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net wrote: there's a new one at ftp://ftp.quanstro.net/other/9atom.iso.gz unfortunately it won't solve baux80's problem, i don't think. exact. Doesn't boot anymore. but on qemu plan9 installs well :) Now, I run it on my personal

[9fans] handling output

2009-10-01 Thread hugo rivera
I've been wondering for a while if there's some way to multiplex (if this is the correct term) stdout for a given program: % ls @ {grep regexp1 file1 } @ {grep regexp2 file2} where @ is an operator that would copy ls stdout to two (maybe more) different file descriptors. Probably some syntax is

Re: [9fans] handling output

2009-10-01 Thread roger peppe
2009/10/1 hugo rivera uai...@gmail.com: I've been wondering for a while if there's some way to multiplex (if this is the correct term) stdout for a given program: that's what tee does. e.g. ls | tee {grep regexp1 file1} {grep regexp2 file2}

Re: [9fans] handling output

2009-10-01 Thread Sam Watkins
I'd like to make a graphical shell which could do this sort of thing, it would also have a textual format for saving and suitable for editing. I think it would be good to have an equivalent graphical tool for each command line tool, as powerful as the original one; and an editable graphical

Re: [9fans] handling output

2009-10-01 Thread Richard Miller
I've been wondering for a while if there's some way to multiplex (if this is the correct term) stdout for a given program: % ls @ {grep regexp1 file1 } @ {grep regexp2 file2} ls | tee {grep regexp1 file1} | grep regexp2 file2

Re: [9fans] handling output

2009-10-01 Thread hugo rivera
Great, thanks. Looks like plan 9 guys have thought about everything useful ☺ (and that I didn't do my homework). 2009/10/1, roger peppe rogpe...@gmail.com: 2009/10/1 hugo rivera uai...@gmail.com: I've been wondering for a while if there's some way to multiplex (if this is the correct term)

Re: [9fans] handling output

2009-10-01 Thread matt
Tee part of the POSIX standard http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/tee.html hugo rivera wrote: Great, thanks. Looks like plan 9 guys have thought about everything useful ☺ (and that I didn't do my homework). 2009/10/1, roger peppe rogpe...@gmail.com: 2009/10/1 hugo

Re: [9fans] remedial sources auth, connect, and mount in plan9port

2009-10-01 Thread Jason Catena
Thank you very much, Venkatesh. All the commands work (don't fail) as you gave them. I still get the same permission-denied error I got before. I can see it, but am not allowed to write to it. $ 9 factotum $ srv -a sources.cs.bell-labs.com !adding key: role=client proto=p9sk1

Re: [9fans] handling output

2009-10-01 Thread hugo rivera
shame on me, I didn't know about it. 2009/10/1, matt maht-9f...@maht0x0r.net: Tee part of the POSIX standard http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/tee.html hugo rivera wrote: Great, thanks. Looks like plan 9 guys have thought about everything useful ☺ (and that

Re: [9fans] remedial sources auth, connect, and mount in plan9port

2009-10-01 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Thu, 1 Oct 2009 04:50:40 -0500 Jason Catena jason.cat...@gmail.com wrote: $ ls -lad drwxrwxr-x 1 4294967294 4294967294 0 2009-09-30 23:11 . You have numbers for user and group names there. Un*x likes the numbers, but plan 9 wants strings. Maybe when you write your system is sending those

Re: [9fans] corrections to /sys/src/cmd/8l/l.h

2009-10-01 Thread sqweek
2009/9/30 lu...@proxima.alt.za: PS: ELF output and other such issues is also on my list of things to check out, but it adds even more complexity to something that really confuses me already. http://gsoc.cat-v.org/projects/kencc/

Re: [9fans] remedial sources auth, connect, and mount in plan9port

2009-10-01 Thread sqweek
2009/10/1 Ethan Grammatikidis eeke...@fastmail.fm: On Thu, 1 Oct 2009 04:50:40 -0500 Jason Catena jason.cat...@gmail.com wrote: $ touch this touch: cannot touch `this': Hammer Time! Fixed. $ ls -lad drwxrwxr-x 1 4294967294 4294967294 0 2009-09-30 23:11 . You have numbers for user and

Re: [9fans] remedial sources auth, connect, and mount in plan9port

2009-10-01 Thread Abhishek Kulkarni
 Yeah, I suspect at this point the linux kernel is denying the operation based on its idea of permissions. there's a v9fs mount option you might try... I forget what it is exactly srv(4) has an example on how to do an authenticated mount of sources, which needs an update BTW. The command to

[9fans] kencc, inferno hg, v9fs is big?, porting

2009-10-01 Thread Sam Watkins
On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 06:22:28PM +0800, sqweek wrote: http://gsoc.cat-v.org/projects/kencc/ Looks good, I can't seem to find how to download that, is there anonymous hg access or a tarball at all? Speaking of hg - I think we should patch it to support empty directories so that the inferno

Re: [9fans] 9atom.iso

2009-10-01 Thread erik quanstrom
On Thu Oct 1 03:58:36 EDT 2009, bau...@gmail.com wrote: On 29 September 2009 at 14:21, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net wrote: there's a new one at ftp://ftp.quanstro.net/other/9atom.iso.gz unfortunately it won't solve baux80's problem, i don't think. exact. Doesn't boot anymore.

Re: [9fans] kencc, inferno hg, v9fs is big?, porting

2009-10-01 Thread Abhishek Kulkarni
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Sam Watkins s...@nipl.net wrote: On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 06:22:28PM +0800, sqweek wrote: http://gsoc.cat-v.org/projects/kencc/ Looks good, I can't seem to find how to download that, is there anonymous hg access or a tarball at all?

Re: [9fans] remedial sources auth, connect, and mount in plan9port

2009-10-01 Thread Jason Catena
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 05:31, sqweek sqw...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/10/1 Ethan Grammatikidis eeke...@fastmail.fm: On Thu, 1 Oct 2009 04:50:40 -0500 Jason Catena jason.cat...@gmail.com wrote: $ ls -lad drwxrwxr-x 1 4294967294 4294967294 0 2009-09-30 23:11 . You have numbers for user and group

Re: [9fans] remedial sources auth, connect, and mount in plan9port

2009-10-01 Thread erik quanstrom
Every time I do so, either with touch or chmod for example, I get errors like this: Oct 1 08:52:39.288 read bad packet from 5 add some debugging to 9pserve.c around 'read bad packet'. i'm gonna guess (since i don't have time to get p9p auth working) that this test has failed

Re: [9fans] acme without a heavy grid (SFW)

2009-10-01 Thread J.R. Mauro
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 7:25 PM, Jason Catena jason.cat...@gmail.com wrote: A quick edit frees acme from its heavy grid prison, a la Tufte. If you look in Envisioning Information, he recommends no borders for all windows, except the focused one, which is yellow. Sam does this (with a different

Re: [9fans] kencc, inferno hg, v9fs is big?, porting

2009-10-01 Thread Russ Cox
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 10:09 AM, C H Forsyth fors...@vitanuova.com wrote: there isn't a `hidden file' in either Plan 9 or Inferno. maybe there are lots of hidden files and we just can't see them. russ

Re: [9fans] kencc, inferno hg, v9fs is big?, porting

2009-10-01 Thread C H Forsyth
Or else commit some hidden file in those directories? there isn't a `hidden file' in either Plan 9 or Inferno.

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Re: [9fans] kencc, inferno hg, v9fs is big?, porting

2009-10-01 Thread ron minnich
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 6:23 AM, Sam Watkins s...@nipl.net wrote: I tried to check out v9fs, but the compressed git repo without checkout is over 300Mb. That's git for you. When you go to git it, you git ALL of it. Kind of like deciding to download sources and getting the entire venti arena.

Re: [9fans] kencc, inferno hg, v9fs is big?, porting

2009-10-01 Thread David Leimbach
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 11:19 AM, ron minnich rminn...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 6:23 AM, Sam Watkins s...@nipl.net wrote: I tried to check out v9fs, but the compressed git repo without checkout is over 300Mb. That's git for you. When you go to git it, you git ALL of it.

Re: [9fans] kencc, inferno hg, v9fs is big?, porting

2009-10-01 Thread David Leimbach
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 11:23 AM, David Leimbach leim...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 11:19 AM, ron minnich rminn...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 6:23 AM, Sam Watkins s...@nipl.net wrote: I tried to check out v9fs, but the compressed git repo without checkout is over

Re: [9fans] kencc, inferno hg, v9fs is big?, porting

2009-10-01 Thread Eric Van Hensbergen
Actually, you can specify a depth argument and only get the most recent revision (and/or some number of revisions back) -- it does not, however, allow you to only grab a subdirectory (that I'm aware of) -- which is why we package 9p-sac in a separate repo. -eric On Oct 1, 2009, at

Re: [9fans] kencc, inferno hg, v9fs is big?, porting

2009-10-01 Thread Vinu Rajashekhar
From git FAQ - http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq#HowdoIcloneasubdirectory.3F On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 11:56 PM, Eric Van Hensbergen eri...@gmail.comwrote: Actually, you can specify a depth argument and only get the most recent revision (and/or some number of revisions back) -- it does not,

[9fans] plan9 on vmware esx

2009-10-01 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
vmware esx only supports scsi virtual drives. it appears to be: 1000/0030 LSI53C1020/1030 PCI-X to Ultra320 SCSI Controller so a new kernel with scsi support and a new cd image should fix it; anything else to consider? fyi, here's the pci output:

Re: [9fans] kencc, inferno hg, v9fs is big?, porting

2009-10-01 Thread jrm8005
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 10:09 AM, C H Forsyth fors...@vitanuova.com wrote: there isn't a `hidden file' in either Plan 9 or Inferno. maybe there are lots of hidden files and we just can't see them. I saw an article a while back about how to use dd to hide files outside the realm of where the

Re: [9fans] kencc, inferno hg, v9fs is big?, porting

2009-10-01 Thread erik quanstrom
I saw an article a while back about how to use dd to hide files outside the realm of where the fs (I think ext3 was the subject) could see them, and making sure to protect them from being reaped by an fsck. Probably not enough to discourage the FBI, but more than enough to deter the average

Re: [9fans] remedial sources auth, connect, and mount in plan9port

2009-10-01 Thread Jason Catena
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 11:22, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net wrote: Every time I do so, either with touch or chmod for example, I get errors like this: Oct 1 08:52:39.288 read bad packet from 5 add some debugging to 9pserve.c around 'read bad packet'. i'm gonna guess (since i don't

Re: [9fans] remedial sources auth, connect, and mount in plan9port

2009-10-01 Thread erik quanstrom
My test case tries to copy a file over top of one that already exists. In this case, the bug decided to flit right by the check at convM2S.c:216,217. i thought the original problem was trying to change modes or permissions on a file. that's why i guessed the problem message would be a

Re: [9fans] plan9 on vmware esx

2009-10-01 Thread 6o205zd02
On Thu, 2009-10-01 at 16:30 -0700, Skip Tavakkolian 9nut-at-9netics.com |9fans| wrote: vmware esx only supports scsi virtual drives. What makes you think that? According to the first page of http://www.../pdf/vsphere4/r40/vsp_40_config_max.pdf IDE controllers per virtual machine: 1 IDE

Re: [9fans] plan9 on vmware esx

2009-10-01 Thread Dave Eckhardt
1000/0030 LSI53C1020/1030 PCI-X to Ultra320 SCSI Controller Run in fear. Despite having a number which is just a wee bit higher than the things supported by the existing Plan 9 NCR/LSI SCSI driver, this is an utterly different beast, based on LSI's Fusion architecture, which in theory

Re: [9fans] plan9 on vmware esx

2009-10-01 Thread erik quanstrom
Run in fear. Despite having a number which is just a wee bit higher than the things supported by the existing Plan 9 NCR/LSI SCSI driver, this is an utterly different beast, based on LSI's Fusion architecture, which in theory simplifies things vastly for the host over the old