sirjofri's journey
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#Hello, I'm sirjofri and I'm quite new to 9-world. I encountered many
#challenges, especially for beginners. So this is a collection of
#challenges and solutions, step by step guides and quick tips I found
#useful.
#
#Most of the time I use the 9front distribution and inferno. Ok,
#well, inferno often just acme sac, I even use it from my job to
#connect to 9gridchan chat.
#
#LENOVO T61
#
#My main 9front machine is a lenovo T61. My installation procedure
#looks like this:
#
#First I make my default installation routine, exactly like the fqa
#states ([http://fqa.9front.org/fqa4.html]). It really is just
#following the guide and the installation wizard. The next step
#involves adjusting the plan9.ini. The machine specific settings for
#my T61 are:
#
#! monitor=vesa
#! vgasize=1280x1024x32
#! *acpi=
#! mouseport=ps2intellimouse
#
#What I really want to use (I mean, hey, it's a laptop), is wifi. For
#my device I need to add the correct device drivers, in my case
#"wpi-3945abg". My wifi card is slow, but I was able to work via
#drawterm from my windows machine, so it's fine.
#
#! % cp source/to/wpi-3945abg /lib/firmware/
#! % cd /sys/src/9/pc
#! % mk install
#! # Then I need to [install the kernel | http://fqa.9front.org/fqa7.html#7.2.5] to my boot partition. This may be different in your setup!
#! % 9fs 9fat
#! % rm /n/9fat/9bootfat
#! % cp /386/9bootfat /n/9fat/
#! % chmod +al /n/9fat/9bootfat
#! % cp /386/9pc /n/9fat/
#
#The next thing to do is binding the network card to my namespace. I
#do this in /cfg/$sysname/termrc (or /cfg/$sysname/cpurc):
#
#! bind -a '#l1' /net
#
#Then the device should show up in /net:
#
#! % lc /net
#! arp esp/ icmp/ ipmux/ ndb
#! bootp ether0/ icmpv6/ iproute rudp/
#! cs ether1/ il/ ipselftab tcp/
#! dns gre/ ipifc/ log udp/
#
#You can then find networks in range inside the /net/ether1/ifstats
#file. To connect to one of them you need to setup your secrets and
#start wpa:
#
#! # Add your secret WPA key. essid is case sensitive!
#! % echo 'key proto=wpapsk essid=yournetwork !password=yourwpakey' > /mnt/factotum/ctl
#! % cat /mnt/factotum/ctl # verify
#! key proto=wpapsk essid=yournetwork !password?
#! % aux/wpa -2 /net/ether1
#
#Connecting to the wifi network:
#
#! % echo essid yournetwork > /net/ether1/clone
#! % ip/ipconfig -p ether /net/ether1
#! % cat /net/ndb # verify
#
#[There | https://pintobyte.com/tmp/autowifi]'s a nice autowifi
#script from jeremy (9fans discord server) that can handle
#automatically connecting to your wifi networks.
#
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#ONE-MACHINE MAIL CLIENT SETUP
#
#Please also have a look at [mail configuration] and the [9front fqa
#| https://fqa.9front.org/fqa8.html#8.4.1]. Especially the
#information for reading mail in the fqa is pretty much the same
#thing I did for my configuration.
#
#Sending Mail
#
#With much help from kvik I was able to setup my single machine for
#sending mail. This might not be useful for multi-machine setups with
#multiple users etc., but in my case (using only one machine) it
#seems to work fine.
#
#At first I tried fiddling around with the information from [mail
#configuration], but nothing worked as I wanted. Then kvik showed me
#an easy way to send mail from 9front machines.
#
#! cp /mail/lib/rewrite.gateway /mail/lib/rewrite
#
#Then change all that YOURDOMAIN.COM stuff to the default domain you
#want to use. According to kvik this is optional and is not used in
#this setup, but it doesn't hurt.
#
#The more important step is setting up the /mail/lib/remotemail file.
#That script is called by the queue to actually send the mails. So
#here we basically receive the mail information and replace it with
#our delivery system. kvik uses basically this file:
#
#! #!/bin/rc
#! sender=$upasname
#! user=$sender
#! switch($sender){
#! case [email protected]
#! dom=example.com
#! user=user
#! smtp=tcp!smtp.example.com!587
#! case [email protected]
#! dom=example.com
#! user=user2
#! smtp=tcp!smtp.example.com!587
#! case *
#! exit addr.not.set
#! }
#! shift 3
#! exec /bin/upas/smtp -a -h $dom -u $user $smtp $sender $*
#
#Of course you need to adjust the account details. Also don't forget
#to add your credentials to factotum. They look like:
#
#! % cat /mnt/factotum/ctl
#! key proto=pass server=smtp.example.com service=smtp user=user !password?
#
#(Factotum is an essential feature for plan9 installations, so you
#should definitely know how to add keys to it.)
#
#The above remotemail uses the upasname= variables to switch between
#the addresses. You can send test mails via:
#
#! % [email protected] mail -s TEST [email protected]
#
#The first connection will fail. That's because you still need to add
#the certs for the other server. You can find the hash inside
#/sys/log/smtp:
#
#! % cat /sys/log/smtp
#! sysname Oct 28 20:20:09 cert for mx01.example.com not recognized: sha256=XXXXX
#
#Then add this hash to your /sys/lib/tls/smtp
#
#! % echo 'x509 sha256=XXXXX' >> /sys/lib/tls/smtp
#
#and try sending your test mail again.
#
#If that works fine you can also use acme for composing and sending
#mail. I also set up upas/fs with the same account information (at
#the moment I only use that one mail account on my machine), so I can
#read and write mail from one acme session.
#
#Reading mail in acme is pretty easy. You just do what you want. I
#should mention that you can mark mails as Delmesg, then you need to
#Put that page to actually delete the messages.
#
#For writing mail middle-click the Mail tag. A new and empty window
#opens. This is where I was lost. There's almost no information
#online and on the system. You can also not find examples anywhere,
#so I asked kvik and he provided a nice example. If you think about
#it, that's what you could already expect:
#
#! To: [email protected]
#! CC: [email protected]
#! Subject: [SPAM] NEED TO SEND YOU $100000000 DOLLARS
#!
#! Hi, I am the Prince of Uruk-Hai and am sending out spam to people...
#
#(The example subject and content are so funny that I included them
#here.)
#
#Then hitting Post will send that mail. Notice that the acme window
#is marked as written and the Post is still there, but the mail will
#be sent. I can imagine that your mail turns into real spam if you
#hit Post again and again...
#
#So that's about sending mail with acme. Now I need to figure out how
#to send attachments, but I can imagine that's another story.
#
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