Re: [9fans] Re: [p9fUsers] 2024 Plan 9 Foundation Board Report

2025-01-18 Thread sirjofri
18.01.2025 23:47:22 Kurt H Maier via 9fans <9fans@9fans.net>: > On Sat, Jan 18, 2025 at 10:29:48PM +0100, sirjofri wrote: >> In general, we have a lot of "this is how tool X works" manuals, and a lack >> of "this is how task X can be done" documentation. The fqa is probably the >> most famous ex

Re: [9fans] Re: [p9fUsers] 2024 Plan 9 Foundation Board Report

2025-01-18 Thread Kurt H Maier via 9fans
On Sat, Jan 18, 2025 at 10:29:48PM +0100, sirjofri wrote: > In general, we have a lot of "this is how tool X works" manuals, and a lack > of "this is how task X can be done" documentation. The fqa is probably the > most famous example of the latter, next to the intro man pages. I would be > happ

Re: [9fans] Re: [p9fUsers] 2024 Plan 9 Foundation Board Report

2025-01-18 Thread sirjofri
18.01.2025 17:11:52 Ron Minnich : > I think upas/debug is a great idea. > > I was unable to send mail yesterday because apple changed its x509 > cert. Now, I can find that, but it is a pain. A upas/debug would be > very useful. I would hope it would check the certs. I have a "do not check certs"

Re: [9fans] Re: [p9fUsers] 2024 Plan 9 Foundation Board Report

2025-01-18 Thread Ron Minnich
I think upas/debug is a great idea. I was unable to send mail yesterday because apple changed its x509 cert. Now, I can find that, but it is a pain. A upas/debug would be very useful. I would hope it would check the certs. On Sat, Jan 18, 2025 at 3:59 AM Steve Simon wrote: > > an alternative sug

Re: [9fans] Re: [p9fUsers] 2024 Plan 9 Foundation Board Report

2025-01-18 Thread Steve Simon
an alternative suggestion: how about writing an app like upas/debug which could analyse your installation and attempt to diagnose problems (and even suggest man pages to look at). personally i have found auth/debug very useful, though i still had situations that it couldn’t help with. just an