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There are Amazon AMI's for plan 9, called plan9-fossil. You don't use ssh to get in though. You need to use the plan 9 "cpu" command, using the "ec2" user and a
by rbc 13y ago
There are Amazon AMI's for plan 9, called plan9-fossil. You don't use ssh to get in though. You need to use the plan 9 "cpu" command, using the "ec2" user and a random password printed on the instance console/system log. I have a plan 9 host running under VirtualBox that I used to access my Amazon Plan 9 host. It worked just great. Another little item is you have to allow TCP access to ports 17010 and 17013 on the instance.
- sanderjd 13y agoAre there any ports of the `cpu` command for other operating systems?
- rbc 13y agoUse drawterm. It is a X11 application that allows you to connect to a remote Plan 9 server.
- rbc 13y agoHere's the command line I used: drawterm -c 54.245.176.166 -u ec2 & Note that I put it in the background. You will want to adjust your server address as appropriate. I should add that drawterm just opens a blank Plan 9 desktop after you authenticate. You have to open a new command session on your own. A right click brings up a menu, you want to choose "new". This will turn the pointer to a "+" shape. You then right click and hold, stretching out the command window until it's the right size. When you release the right click, you will have a rc shell to type commands into.
- sanderjd 13y agoNeat! Thanks for the instructions - that's definitely the easiest way to play around with Plan9 that I've come across (but I guess I haven't been looking too hard...)
- nmcfarl 13y agoSome details on that ami: Specs: http://thecloudmarket.com/image/ami-cfa332ff--plan9-fossil#/definition http://thecloudmarket.com/image/ami-cfa332ff--plan9-fossil#/... Link to launch via AWS Console: https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/home?region=us-west-2#launchAmi=ami-cfa332ff https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/home?region=us-west-2#lau...