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Grex > Helpers > #140: Grex System Problems - Spring 2005 | |
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jor
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response 131 of 457:
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Apr 21 14:13 UTC 2005 |
you know what they say about idle hands
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nharmon
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response 132 of 457:
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Apr 24 15:53 UTC 2005 |
> you know what they say about idle hands
They say the same thing about full /var drives. :) *hint hint*
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aruba
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response 133 of 457:
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Apr 24 20:17 UTC 2005 |
I can't send any mail presently because something is full.
[Mail not sent. Sending error: 451 Error while writing spool file]
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remmers
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response 134 of 457:
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Apr 24 21:15 UTC 2005 |
/var filled up, which breaks several things. I freed up some space.
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naftee
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response 135 of 457:
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Apr 24 21:30 UTC 2005 |
/dev/sd1g 7.0G 6.6G 357K 100% /var/mail
:(
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keesan
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response 136 of 457:
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Apr 25 16:09 UTC 2005 |
write failed, /var/... is full (in Pine).
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naftee
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response 137 of 457:
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Apr 26 01:44 UTC 2005 |
another reason why keesan shouldn't use a twit filter :(
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keesan
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response 138 of 457:
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Apr 26 21:33 UTC 2005 |
Var filling up is causing problems with lost mail. I have some names
whitelisted but there is no space to write their mail and something gets
truncated and the procmail filter continues with the same mail and throws it
out when it reaches another filter. I lost four mails each from two people
today. Can someone please fix mail soon? I am considering giving up on grex
mail otherwise. It is not fair to ask people to keep writing over and over.
This has been going on for at least a week. When will the new drive be
installed to replace the one that died. In the meantime I will tell everyone
whose mail was not received to write to another address next time.
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keesan
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response 139 of 457:
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Apr 26 21:34 UTC 2005 |
This is also generating messages about new mail and there is never any new
mail, at least not today.
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keesan
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response 140 of 457:
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Apr 26 21:58 UTC 2005 |
I just got another new mail message and no new mail. Several times already
today. I can't stop using my filter or the mailbox will fill with spam in
a few hours (including viruses or worms over 1M).
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keesan
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response 141 of 457:
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Apr 26 22:10 UTC 2005 |
Can /var/mail be given a larger drive? If my calculations are correct it is
occupying about an 8G right now.
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mary
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response 142 of 457:
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Apr 26 22:26 UTC 2005 |
Sindi, Grex mail is broken. We don't have staff time to fix it.
The prognosis is not good for a spam filter in the near future.
Asking for it to be fixed soon isn't going to make it happen.
If you need reliable mail you're not going to get it from Grex.
Move on.
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tod
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response 143 of 457:
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Apr 26 22:34 UTC 2005 |
What does "move on" mean?
Please replace the Grex website's blue ribbon with:
"If you need reliable mail you're not going to get it from Grex."
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marcvh
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response 144 of 457:
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Apr 26 22:36 UTC 2005 |
If you need reliable anything you're probably not going to get it from
a volunteer-run service.
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mary
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response 145 of 457:
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Apr 26 22:47 UTC 2005 |
Exactly. If you NEED mail, get a free account elsewhere. You'll
not be happy with what Grex can offer at the moment.
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mcnally
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response 146 of 457:
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Apr 26 22:54 UTC 2005 |
I'm sure Mary thinks she's simply being frank, and I appreciate
that the situation is difficult for staff and the board, but I
find her tone to be quite unnecessarily condescending and her negative
attitude seems pretty defeatist.
Instead of concluding that we don't have the resources, what if
we asked the community to help find the time and or materials
that are necessary?
I realize that staff time is limited under the best of circumstances
and that STeve's recent illness has only exacerbated the situation.
Have the staff and/or board considered asking the user community for
volunteers to help fix some of the more immediate issues? I'd be
willing to step up and volunteer some time if the system leadership
were receptive to reaching out and letting other people besides the
usual suspects work on the system problems.
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mary
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response 147 of 457:
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Apr 26 22:58 UTC 2005 |
Thanks, Mike. I know your efforts will be appreciated.
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tod
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response 148 of 457:
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Apr 26 22:59 UTC 2005 |
re #146
I'd be
willing to step up and volunteer some time if the system leadership
were receptive to reaching out and letting other people besides the
usual suspects work on the system problems.
I think that is the core of the problem and has been for a long time.
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keesan
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response 149 of 457:
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Apr 26 23:17 UTC 2005 |
I think all that mail needs is more space than is available on /var/mail.
It keeps filling up. Remmers moved some things off var - if there is nothing
else to be moved, can we add another drive until the next BSD version is
available?
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jor
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response 150 of 457:
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Apr 26 23:31 UTC 2005 |
www.yahoo.com
test me at jor48105@yahoo.com
Hints: free. Deals with crap like HTML and graphics.
Alternative: stamp your little feet and declare
yourself a "paying member" of grex,
which, I understand, accepts contributions.
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glenda
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response 151 of 457:
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Apr 26 23:35 UTC 2005 |
Increasing the space in /var/mail will only help for only a short time. The
new amount of space will just fill up the same as the smaller space. And,
we cannot increase the space anywhere until we get the new drive and get it
up and running. There just isn't any space to allocate to it right now.
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bru
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response 152 of 457:
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Apr 26 23:45 UTC 2005 |
I find your lack of faith...Disturbing.
Darth Grex
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keesan
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response 153 of 457:
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Apr 27 00:31 UTC 2005 |
I tried yahoo mail and hated it. Webmail is always slow and annoying.
Eventually a systemwide spam filter will drastically reduce the amount of
unread and unwanted mail sitting in unused accounts and free up space.
What is keeping grex from installing a new drive sooner? There was something
about a new drive being saved for a new BSD installation but what would it
cost to have two new drives?
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jep
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response 154 of 457:
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Apr 27 00:33 UTC 2005 |
M-Net seems to have enough space for e-mail.
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mcnally
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response 155 of 457:
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Apr 27 00:35 UTC 2005 |
I believe that reducing the amount of incoming Spam will dramatically
reduce the demand for mail storage space and finding ways to block
some of it will be an important step towards a sustainable mail service.
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