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Grex > Helpers > #149: Grex System Problems - Spring 2006 | |
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keesan
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response 119 of 333:
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May 12 02:41 UTC 2006 |
Is there an item in which we are supposed to ask for programs to be added to
grex? I would like antiword (to convert doc files to text so we can read them
here) and an rtf convertor such as rtf2html and pdftotext. People keep
sending me stupid formats of email. I got one yesterday with text, html, rtf,
doc, and pdf in it. I ftp'ed the files to freeshell to use their programs
(but could not find pdftotext there).
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nharmon
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response 120 of 333:
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May 12 02:44 UTC 2006 |
You can use the screen program to do multiple things in one telnet
session. But I agree with Dan, increase the number of ptys.
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malymi
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response 121 of 333:
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May 12 10:41 UTC 2006 |
screen isn't magical, it requires a pty for every :screen you create.
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mcnally
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response 122 of 333:
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May 12 16:46 UTC 2006 |
It's true that it requires ptys but I still think screen is magical.
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marcvh
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response 123 of 333:
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May 12 17:04 UTC 2006 |
Screen was magical back in the days of dial-in before PPP or even SLIP,
although it still did not measure of up to "uw", a superior windowing
program. The chief advantage of uw was that switching between screens
didn't require re-sending the entire contents of the new screen, which
was a big deal when you only had a 2400 baud modem.
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tod
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response 124 of 333:
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May 12 18:10 UTC 2006 |
re #122
It's true that it requires ptys but I still think screen is magical.
I find the "-h 9000" option magical for scrolling back and cut&paste.
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i
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response 125 of 333:
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May 14 11:24 UTC 2006 |
Looks like grex is out of inodes on /var/spool.
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tod
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response 126 of 333:
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May 14 17:17 UTC 2006 |
Damnit Chloe!
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cross
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response 127 of 333:
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May 14 23:00 UTC 2006 |
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keesan
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response 128 of 333:
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May 15 02:54 UTC 2006 |
New users have now been deprived off offsite mail privileges temporarily for
just over 4 months. Is anyone actually working on a solution?
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cross
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response 129 of 333:
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May 15 05:01 UTC 2006 |
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slynne
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response 130 of 333:
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May 15 13:10 UTC 2006 |
Sindi, I dont know how much the staff is working on this issue but I
dont imagine that anyone is currently devoting much time to it. I would
rather we were able to offer offsite mail to all newusers and that is
ultimately the goal as I understand it. In the mean time, we can
probably get staff to restore privileges to an individual if you have a
particular user in mind.
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keesan
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response 131 of 333:
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May 15 15:41 UTC 2006 |
I commented because the motd has a message (I think posted by Cross, not sure)
about offsite mail privileges temporarily being suspended, dated Jan 11. This
does not make grex look very good when someone logs in. If there are no plans
to restore mail to new users, say so instead. One new user, perch, went off
annoyed after talking about this for a while in coop. He was interested in
helping set up a spam filter at grex and knew a lot about spamassassin. We
exchanged a few emails. 'restore' is not the correct word for giving mail
privileges to a new user who never had them.
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cross
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response 132 of 333:
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May 15 15:59 UTC 2006 |
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keesan
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response 133 of 333:
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May 15 17:09 UTC 2006 |
Maybe I should ask bhoward if he has time to work on mail quotas.
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cross
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response 134 of 333:
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May 15 19:00 UTC 2006 |
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nharmon
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response 135 of 333:
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May 15 19:28 UTC 2006 |
Or we could let Google handle it for us.
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keesan
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response 136 of 333:
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May 15 19:35 UTC 2006 |
Google does pine email from our home accounts here?
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cross
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response 137 of 333:
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May 15 20:33 UTC 2006 |
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ball
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response 138 of 333:
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May 15 23:27 UTC 2006 |
I've notified most of the people in my address book that
they should not send me mail here at Grex because, since the
move from Sun to PC (which I think coincided with a
geographical move), Grex has been down quite a bit. Even
when it's up I receive complaints about mail bouncing back
to senders with errors such as 'too many SMTP connections'.
Perhaps turning off email would free up resources (including
staff time) to work on other things?
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kingjon
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response 139 of 333:
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May 15 23:53 UTC 2006 |
Google has not offered to do our email for us. There was the story a while back
that they had a program to do so for some nonprofit organizations, I don't
think Grex would qualify (open newuser), and the story didn't specify whether
this would be paid for by GMail-style ads or by the organization. In any case,
I haven't heard anything more of it since.
While it is true that GMail can be read and sent using some standard utilities,
such as pine, fetchmail, and I suspect mutt, and you can access a bare version
in links (not lynx as it requires javascript), those are severely limited,
making most of the advantages of GMail irrelevant. (For instance, they only use
POP3, not IMAP, for connecting. Unless I'm missing something in their
documentation, you can't get at your "Archived" mail from a client [like pine],
you can't use their "labels" feature, and it doesn't report any mail that
you've seen before, so anything you wanted to read again you'd have to
continaully mark "unread" to get it to keep showing up.)
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tod
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response 140 of 333:
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May 16 20:17 UTC 2006 |
warning: libc.so.38.2: minor version >= 3 expected, using it anyway
PicoSpan T3.3a; designed by Marcus Watts
copyright 1984 NETI; licensed by Unicon Inc.
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wilt
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response 141 of 333:
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May 16 23:44 UTC 2006 |
HACKED BY GNAA LOL JEWS DID WTC LOL
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wilt
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response 142 of 333:
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May 16 23:58 UTC 2006 |
HTTP://WWW.GNAA.US/
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keesan
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response 143 of 333:
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May 17 01:27 UTC 2006 |
I just added the latest vandal to my .cfonce file (pico -w .cfonce). If you
don't have a twit filter type 'ignore wilt'. Then if you don't want to page
past 147 items with blank entries in them type 'fixseen' but you will also
lose responses from other people.
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