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jmsaul
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response 143 of 248:
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Nov 18 02:05 UTC 2002 |
They can't? What do you do in the perennial hypothetical case where someone
posts a credit card number?
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other
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response 144 of 248:
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Nov 18 02:08 UTC 2002 |
uh huh
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jmsaul
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response 145 of 248:
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Nov 18 02:32 UTC 2002 |
Heh...
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janc
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response 146 of 248:
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Nov 18 04:56 UTC 2002 |
In that perennial hypothetical case, cfadm or root edits the response.
Incidentally, they can edit the pseudonym too.
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davel
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response 147 of 248:
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Nov 18 13:12 UTC 2002 |
Re 142: I guess we must be, John. Why else is this continuing?
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jhudson
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response 148 of 248:
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Nov 19 18:18 UTC 2002 |
lol
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fuzzman
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response 149 of 248:
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Nov 20 17:28 UTC 2002 |
wierdness:
fuzzman@cyberspace.org's password:
Warning: Remote host failed or refused to allocate a pseudo tty.
Warning: no access to tty (Bad file number).
Thus no job control in this shell.
mesg: I/O stream 2 improperly redirected
stty: TCGETS: Operation not supported on socket
stty: standard input: Operation not supported on socket
TERM: Undefined variable.
stty: standard input: Operation not supported on socket
mesg: I/O stream 2 improperly redirected
Is someone hogging ttys?
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janc
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response 150 of 248:
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Nov 20 17:49 UTC 2002 |
Grex rations ttys to limit usage. If you telnet in and we are out of
ttys, you get put in a queue. If you ssh in ... yucky things happen.
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fuzzman
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response 151 of 248:
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Nov 20 17:51 UTC 2002 |
Ah, that makes much sense. Thanks for the information.
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gull
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response 152 of 248:
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Nov 21 18:56 UTC 2002 |
Yup, if you get the 'failed or refused to allocate a pseudo tty' message,
it's best to kill that ssh session and either telnet in, or try again later.
It's rare to have a long queue these days, so often trying ssh again a few
minutes later works fine.
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remmers
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response 153 of 248:
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Nov 21 23:08 UTC 2002 |
Or even just a few seconds later.
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fuzzman
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response 154 of 248:
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Nov 22 14:50 UTC 2002 |
I asked because it was consistent for about 20 minutes.
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albaugh
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response 155 of 248:
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Dec 3 16:10 UTC 2002 |
grex timing out mail connection attempts from other systems continues to be
a problem (refusing / unable for > 1 hour). In this case, I'm talking about
Ford, not some spam-factory. This is now what I consider chronic; is this
because grex now receives so much e-mail that it can't handle all foreign
systems? If so, I posit that to be due to so much spam. Does staff have any
time to investigate why mail connections are being refused this way?
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keesan
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response 156 of 248:
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Dec 3 16:23 UTC 2002 |
I only had problems with two particular senders, whose systems timed out or
something. THe rest of my mail gets through all the time.
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dang
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response 157 of 248:
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Dec 3 22:06 UTC 2002 |
Grex was breifly timing out for me, but that went away, and hasn't come
back, so I assume it was high load. I get mail from Grex all the time,
and regularly, as I'm staff, so there doesn't seem to be a general
cronic mail delivery problem on Grex. I'm not a mail guru, so I can't
help beyond that.
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russ
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response 158 of 248:
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Dec 4 01:14 UTC 2002 |
I am also in the situation of getting no e-mail for most of a day
or even close to two days, then getting a huge backlog.
Seriously, folks. If we no longer have the capacity to be the
mail drop for a big chunk of the third world, let's cut them off.
They are not part of the Grex community and are threatening our
very existence. Let them use Hotmail or Yahoo.
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gelinas
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response 159 of 248:
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Dec 4 01:36 UTC 2002 |
Don't assume that mail is all they use. I know that I see a fair number in
party.
I'm not privileged to look at the logs, so I can't attempt to do any
diagnosis of a potential problem.
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other
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response 160 of 248:
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Dec 4 02:12 UTC 2002 |
I got my first porn spam at board@cyberspace.org.
I would assume that's a big chunk of the problem.
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jmsaul
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response 161 of 248:
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Dec 4 02:22 UTC 2002 |
That you're using the board address to sign up for porn sites? Could be...
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other
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response 162 of 248:
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Dec 4 02:37 UTC 2002 |
Well, that's what they tell me, but I just can't recall...
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russ
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response 163 of 248:
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Dec 4 05:32 UTC 2002 |
Re #159: I was thinking of something more like putting new users
into a "no mail" (also no ftp, thus getting rid of donkey) group,
and giving people full privs if they become members, have an
identifiable USA presence or make a special request. Existing
users would not be affected.
Getting rid of donkey might be worth the whole effort.
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scott
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response 164 of 248:
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Dec 4 14:01 UTC 2002 |
We disable accounts which do automated stuff anyway, so it's probably not as
big a problem as it appears. The big edonkey problem was just excessive
clueless bots trying to connect, which somebody could do maliciously anyway.
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mcnally
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response 165 of 248:
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Dec 4 14:33 UTC 2002 |
re #159:
> giving people full privs if they .. have an identifiable USA presence..
I can't decide whether or not I'd like to hear your rationalization for
this proposal or not..
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mynxcat
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response 166 of 248:
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Dec 4 16:13 UTC 2002 |
This response has been erased.
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gull
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response 167 of 248:
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Dec 4 17:15 UTC 2002 |
Re #157: It's not mail *from* Grex that's the problem, it's mail *to* Grex.
The problem has eased up for me a bit, lately, though I do still
occasionally see mailing list mail arrive out of order (which indicates
a batch of it didn't go through on the first attempt.)
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