.TH DIALREG 1
.SH NAME
dialreg - connect to a grid registry by net address
.SH SYNOPSIS
g/dialreg dialstring registryname
.SH DESCRIPTION
dialreg attempts to connect to the given dialstring and mount the files there as a registry service. This can be either a native inferno registry or a g/toolkit plan9 registry. If it connects successfully, it mounts the registry at /g/$REGNAME/r, harvests the information about connected services from the index to /tmp/grid/info/regbucket, and makes a record of the name and dialstring in /tmp/grid/registries. It is intended that dialreg only needs to be used to set up an initial registry, or registries that are not indexed by other registries. g/getreg is the general command to add a registry whose identity is known. Once an initial seed registry is added with dialreg, it is assumed that further registries will be contained in its index and can be connected to with g/getreg REGNAME.
.SH SOURCE
/bin/g
.SH BUGS
If the dialstring succeeds and a 9p filesystem is mounted, it will be added as a registry even if it is not actually a compatible registry system.
