[9fans] auth/changeuser from drawterm

2008-03-20 Thread Christian Kellermann
Dear 9fans, in order to be able to do administrative tasks through drawterm I habe added the following to my cpurc: srvfs nimda / Then I expected to mount /mnt/keys and friends in a drawterm as bootes like this: mount -bc /srv/nimda / A ls /mnt/keys now shows the existing loaded keys. A auth/c

Re: [9fans] auth/changeuser from drawterm

2008-03-20 Thread Christian Kellermann
To give you some more information: It seems that auth/changeuser hangs in reading from /dev/cons: cpu% ps | grep changeuser bootes 22760:00 0:00 72K Preadchangeuser cpu% acid 2276 /proc/2276/text:386 plan 9 executable /sys/lib/acid/port /sys/lib/acid/386 acid: stk() pread(

Re: [9fans] auth/changeuser from drawterm

2008-03-20 Thread Christian Kellermann
gdiaz found my error: of course if I buínd -b /n/root / /dev/cons of the server is used and not one of the stacked from the drawterms... just binding the mnt dir resolves this issue. I officially owe gdiaz some beer. Sorry for the noise! Christian -- You may use my gpg key for replies: pub 1

Re: [9fans] auth/changeuser from drawterm

2008-03-20 Thread erik quanstrom
> Dear 9fans, > > in order to be able to do administrative tasks through drawterm I > habe added the following to my cpurc: [...] it's really worth setting up a serial console and console server to avoid these issues. at home i use cec. there's a patch here /n/sources/patch/saved it's a

Re: [9fans] EWOULDBLOCK in APE

2008-03-20 Thread ron minnich
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:48 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > APE does not include EWOULDBLOCK in its . I have a feeling > that no syscall will return EWOULDBLOCK as an error code, so I fail to > see any reason not to include it. Am I missing something? If it's not there, and someone uses

Re: [9fans] EWOULDBLOCK in APE

2008-03-20 Thread Richard Bilson
> APE does not include EWOULDBLOCK in its . I have a feeling > that no syscall will return EWOULDBLOCK as an error code, so I fail to > see any reason not to include it. Am I missing something? I think it's common on UNIX systems for EWOULDBLOCK to be a synonym for EAGAIN.

[9fans] EWOULDBLOCK in APE

2008-03-20 Thread lucio
I'm seeking advice. APE does not include EWOULDBLOCK in its . I have a feeling that no syscall will return EWOULDBLOCK as an error code, so I fail to see any reason not to include it. Am I missing something? ++L

[9fans] Boot option to disable multiprocessor mode?

2008-03-20 Thread Brad Frank
Is it possible to modify the live cd isos to list an option that would allow booting with the *nomp=1 option set? It seems to prevent the ability for me to use vesa modes on my dual core Thinkpad T60, and as a result the coloring looks really screwed up. Dark green background, terminals with black

[9fans] recommendations on cpu fossil permissions

2008-03-20 Thread Jeff Sickel
I've got a vmware instance that I use w/ the 9pccpuf kernel since drawterm connections work much more successfully than using vmware's gui drivers. Unfortunately, I also use 9pcf and log in as glenda in the terminal (installed that way, migrated to the cpu kernel) so some of the file owner

Re: [9fans] EWOULDBLOCK in APE

2008-03-20 Thread Federico G. Benavento
> I think it's common on UNIX systems for EWOULDBLOCK to be a synonym for > EAGAIN. that's correct, at least acording to my POSIX man pages I have in the posix-man contrib package. -- Federico G. Benavento

Re: [9fans] recommendations on cpu fossil permissions

2008-03-20 Thread erik quanstrom
> I've got a vmware instance that I use w/ the 9pccpuf kernel since > drawterm connections work much more successfully than using vmware's > gui drivers. Unfortunately, I also use 9pcf and log in as glenda in > the terminal (installed that way, migrated to the cpu kernel) so some > of the

Re: [9fans] EWOULDBLOCK in APE

2008-03-20 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
a couple of weeks ago brucee and i were looking for "wood block" on linux :) here's a little torture: which header file has the errno's on linux? On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Federico G. Benavento <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think it's common on UNIX systems for EWOULDBLOCK to be a syn

Re: [9fans] EWOULDBLOCK in APE

2008-03-20 Thread Bruce Ellis
well to be honest i did use up more than my share of wood blocks ... but my fire was raging. in the early 80s when a thousand new errnos were introduced it was a cocktail afternoon at basser, and i think it was andrew taylor who looked at ENAMELON and exclaimed "And A Melon?" ... so i made melon da

Re: [9fans] EWOULDBLOCK in APE

2008-03-20 Thread ron minnich
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 9:07 PM, Skip Tavakkolian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > a couple of weeks ago brucee and i were looking for "wood block" on linux :) > > here's a little torture: which header file has the errno's on linux? All of them. ron