Re: [9fans] Newby Question on setting hostname

2014-04-07 Thread erik quanstrom
> I did that on my 9atom system (9fat: to mount the fat file system on > /n/9fat and then edited plan9.ini) but that didn't have any effect. :( > It takes /dev/sysname (which is an IP address). I manually edited > /rc/bin/termrc to get a valid sysname. ideally, put the following in one of /lib/ndb

Re: [9fans] Newby Question on setting hostname

2014-04-07 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 8:31 AM, Lee Fallat wrote: > > Put sysname=yourhostname in the plan9.ini file so you don't have to do I did that on my 9atom system (9fat: to mount the fat file system on /n/9fat and then edited plan9.ini) but that didn't have any effect. :( It takes /dev/sysname (which is

Re: [9fans] Newby Question on setting hostname

2014-04-07 Thread Lee Fallat
Hey, Put sysname=yourhostname in the plan9.ini file so you don't have to do the echo every time. I was surprised it was not mentioned in the plan9.ini (8) man page. I had to do a web search in order to find out about it. Enjoy, Lee On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 10:47 PM, Daryl M wrote: > Greetings, >

[9fans] Newby Question on setting hostname

2014-04-07 Thread Daryl M
Greetings, I spent time this weekend experimenting with, and learning about, configuring my Plan9 machine as a simple, DHCP client, terminal. Networking now seems to work reliably: DNS is resolving names, I can ping machines locally and across the internet by both name and IP address. I can also