9fans archive / 1999 / 12 / 20 / prev next From: presotto@pla... presotto@pla... Subject: [9fans] A real newbie question Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 11:59:36 -0500 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --upas-uqreseiojkmhcosprmmuakijhd Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Someone answered you about adding users. I'll try the dns problem. I've done a better dns since then and it'll come out soon. However, till then, you need to make do with what you have, which is essentially a dns program that's both resolver and server. Add entries to the /lib/ndb/local file that look like this: dom= ns=A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET ns=B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET ns=C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET ns=D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET ns=E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET ns=F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET ns=G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET ns=H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET ns=I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET dom=A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET ip=198.41.0.4 dom=B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET ip=128.9.0.107 dom=C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET ip=192.33.4.12 dom=D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET ip=128.8.10.90 dom=E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET ip=192.203.230.10 dom=F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET ip=192.5.5.241 ip=39.13.229.241 dom=G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET ip=192.112.36.4 dom=H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET ip=128.63.2.53 dom=I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET ip=192.36.148.17 If you don't want to go to the root servers, pretend that your other name servers are the root servers and edit the above accordingly. Otherwise keep the above entries and also add one for your local (I assume bnl.gov) domain: dom=bnl.gov ns=NS1.bnl.gov ns=NAMESERVER.bnl.gov ns=NS1.ES.NET dom=NS1.bnl.gov ip=130.199.1.1 dom=NAMESERVER.bnl.gov ip=130.199.128.31 dom=NS1.ES.NET ip=198.128.2.10 This program doesn't add domain's to names before resolving so your stuck with typing full domain names if the system isn't in /lib/ndb/local. --upas-uqreseiojkmhcosprmmuakijhd Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Received: from plan9.cs.bell-labs.com ([135.104.9.2]) by plan9; Fri Dec 17 08:47:35 EST 1999 Received: from cse.psu.edu ([130.203.3.50]) by plan9; Fri Dec 17 08:47:34 EST 1999 Received: from localhost (majordom@localhost) by cse.psu.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA23629; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 08:25:54 -0500 (EST) Received: by claven.cse.psu.edu (bulk_mailer v1.5); Fri, 17 Dec 1999 08:24:44 -0500 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by cse.psu.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA23582 for 9fans-outgoing; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 08:24:39 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: claven.cse.psu.edu: majordom set sender to owner-9fans using -f Received: from sun2.bnl.gov (sun2.bnl.gov [130.199.74.35]) by cse.psu.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA23577 for <9fans@cse...>; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 08:24:31 -0500 (EST) Received: from bnl.gov (takai@elm... [130.199.20.83]) by sun2.bnl.gov (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA08940 for <9fans@cse...>; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 08:24:00 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <385A3AB3.600311C1@bnl.gov> Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 08:29:23 -0500 From: Helio Takai <takai@bnl.gov> Organization: Brookhaven National Laboratory X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.13 i686) X-Accept-Language: en, ja, pt-BR MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "9fans@cse..." <9fans@cse...> Subject: [9fans] A real newbie question Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-9fans@cse... Reply-To: 9fans@cse... Precedence: bulk Hi, After having the CD for more than a year in my drawer I decided that I have to install it... So I did. I went as far as installing the CD on a pentium 60, with 48Mb, #9GXE-pci video card, bus-logic SCSI and a couple of recycled SCSI disks. 81/2 works great, etc... I am having some difficulties configuring the network. My main problem is to access our domain name server. We have in our lab two machines that serves this purpose. The question is how can I do that? I imagine that this needs to be included in /lib/ndb/local, is this correct? Other question - how to add users? I have tried the newuser script, but it complains that cannot cd to /usr/$user or something like that. So you see...these are real newbie question... I am not a real computer expert, but would like to understand if plan9 or something in these lines could be used in high energy physics. In particular for the data analysis, where many users share a common set of data. Reading the several papers it seems that this is the case.... Any help is greatly welcomed! Cheers, Helio Takai takai@bnl.gov --upas-uqreseiojkmhcosprmmuakijhd--