Re: [9fans] making yourself at home

2007-06-13 Thread Richard Miller
> Is there actually something like hwclock (to directly set, read the HW > clock) in Plan 9? rtc(3) The cpurc script sets the hardware clock after starting timesync: awk '{print $1}' /dev/time >'#r/rtc'# fix hw clock

Re: [9fans] making yourself at home

2007-06-12 Thread Charles Forsyth
>> Ok, so a terminal is really a single-user "terminal", unlike a >> "workstation". my linux workstation is also single user, but it gets me to type my password quite often. that's certainly terminal.

Re: [9fans] making yourself at home

2007-06-12 Thread lucio
>> reboot. > > Ok, but it just sounds strange for someone who has only been using > Unix-like systems for the last 10 years. > Strange, but harmless. More practical and trustowrthy than Windows' Ctrl-Alt-Del. > Ok, so a terminal is really a single-user "terminal", unlike a > "workstation". > Y

Re: [9fans] making yourself at home

2007-06-12 Thread john
> On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 06:09:10PM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote: >> > - How do I logout to let another user login? >> >> reboot. > > Ok, but it just sounds strange for someone who has only been using > Unix-like systems for the last 10 years. > It does sound strange, but as long as your termin

Re: [9fans] making yourself at home

2007-06-12 Thread Frank Lenaerts
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 06:09:10PM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote: > > - How do I logout to let another user login? > > reboot. Ok, but it just sounds strange for someone who has only been using Unix-like systems for the last 10 years. > > - Is there something like "su" to let me be someone else in

Re: [9fans] making yourself at home

2007-06-12 Thread Frank Lenaerts
On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 12:05:49AM +0200, Gabriel Diaz wrote: > hello Hello, > i tried to answer your questions one by one, but will choose to do it > the short way: > > http://cm.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/ I have read some of the documents but not all of them like "getting started" docs;-) > take

Re: [9fans] making yourself at home

2007-06-07 Thread Federico Benavento
hola, I think most of your question has been already answered, but anyways On 6/7/07, Frank Lenaerts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, After installing Plan 9 on a standalone machine, adding a user, configuring the network, wandering around a bit, reading some manpages, ... I have a few questions

Re: [9fans] making yourself at home

2007-06-07 Thread Kris Maglione
In addition to what gabi posted, try the FAQ (http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/FAQ/index.html). - After creating a new user, the new user does not (yet) have a password. Apparently, I cannot use auth/changeuser because I don't have an auth server (the system is setup as a "terminal" wher

Re: [9fans] making yourself at home

2007-06-07 Thread erik quanstrom
On Thu Jun 7 17:50:18 EDT 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > - Living in Belgium, I copied /adm/timezone/CET to > /adm/timezone/local. However, time is still off by 2 hours. It seems > that the system is using GMT (normally, CET = GMT + 1; in summertime > (now), CET = GMT + 2). Is the CET file

Re: [9fans] making yourself at home

2007-06-07 Thread Gabriel Diaz
hello i tried to answer your questions one by one, but will choose to do it the short way: http://cm.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/ take a look to this man pages too: ns(1) bind(1) timesync(8) that will explain your security and multi-user questions, the mount question and may be fixes your time probl

[9fans] making yourself at home

2007-06-07 Thread Frank Lenaerts
Hi, After installing Plan 9 on a standalone machine, adding a user, configuring the network, wandering around a bit, reading some manpages, ... I have a few questions for which I didn't find an answer. They seem stupid, so I might have missed some important documentation. If so, just point me to t