[9fans] Re: wiki changes

Thanks for the recent changes to the wiki.
They're pretty good but I found a handful of small errors,
which are listed below.

On the whole the new text looks better. Thanks.
Russ

Thanks for the feedback and the corrections!


- #DISABLE PERMISSIONS CHECKING

If you killed this section, how are they supposed to
have permission to do the rest? At the least you
should tell them how to add glenda to sys.

That is documented in [adding a new user], I will point there.

IMHO it's much better to add glenda to group sys than the "disable
permissions checking" hack. I have asked several times, is there any
good reason why glenda is not in group sys by default? It would make
setting up things for new users much easier.

I thought it was you who said disabling permission checking should be
deprecated.


- #! # auth/keyfs -wp -m /mnt/keys /adm/keys >/dev/null >[2=1]
+ #! # auth/keyfs -p -m /mnt/keys /adm/keys >/dev/null >[2=1]
#! # auth/cron >>/sys/log/cron >[2=1] &

Why did you remove the -w? Regardless of whether you
think it's a good idea to use -w, that's what cpurc says!

Sorry, I got confused with the other call to keyfs where -w was
superfluous. I added it back.

This text (cut from earlier in the page) should be added to the
beginning of this section:
> - #You can decide what name to give your cpu server owner. This is the
> - #user that all the cpu servers run as. We'll name the user 'bootes';
> - #it is recommended that you also choose 'bootes' as it will appear in
> - #the instructions frequently.

Yes, I deleted it because it was in a place where it was not relevant,
I'm still not too happy with that text, but I added it back as it is.


You got rid of the text about creating the key file and
the cron log file. That's an important step (no one has
permissions to create in /adm) and needs to be
updated for fossil:

- #It's necessary to clear the existing key file:
- #
- #! rm /adm/keys
- #! disk/kfscmd 'create /adm/keys bootes bootes 660'
- #
- #If necessary, create cron's log file with:
- #
- #! disk/kfscmd 'create /sys/log/cron bootes sys 664 a'
Yes, but this assumes kfs. And the cron file was created before:
! main: create /active/sys/log/cron bootes bootes a664

I don't think I ever created the /adm/keys file and it all "just
worked", /adm is mode 775 adm:sys and the user is assumed to be in
group sys, so it should not be a problem, I think. But my picture of
how all this fits together is not very clear, so probably I got
something wrong.

- #Optionally, configure your mail setup (described above) by editing
- #rewrite, remotemail, smtpd.conf, and names.local, all in /mail/lib.
- #

This is important! Why did it go away?

Because it's covered in [mail configuration]. I will add a link to it
at the bottom along the link to the file server setup link.

#COMPILE AND INSTALL A STANDALONE CPU/AUTH KERNEL

The compiling part can go away - just use /386/9pccpuf.
Good idea.

# * A netkey binary is available from
# [ftp://plan9.bell-labs.com/netkey/] .
# * If you want to access cpu server from the internet and have a
# firewall, open up ports 567 and 17013.

Will anyone have any idea what a netkey binary is at this point?
Not me :)

+ #Also note that in case you really want a dedicated file server, a
+ #new version of the file server code updated to use the latest
+ #version of 9P and with various other improvements can be found at:
+ #/n/sources/contrib/geoff/fs64.tgz

Fs64 adds 64-bit files sizes. The current /sys/src/9 already
speaks the latest version of 9P.
Oh, it would be nice if fs64 could be merged with /sys/src/9/fs/,
maybe goeff could get direct write access to that sub-tree as he is
the one maintaining that code?


I think I fixed all the other problems you reported, let me know if
there is anything else.

Thanks

uriel



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