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janc
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response 225 of 283:
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Feb 18 16:57 UTC 1999 |
Sorry, but we are basically out of user space. We need to add another
disk. This isn't a big problem, since we have more disks, but they are
slightly weird disks and getting them configured and installed is going
to be modestly complex. Staff probably isn't going to get to it until
this weekend. In the meantime we're asking users to reduce disk usage
as much as they can.
By the way, I tried to set up Backtalk to be good about not munging
participation files on full disks. If any Backtalk users notice their
participation files getting munged, I'd be interested in hearing about
it.
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tpryan
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response 226 of 283:
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Feb 18 17:20 UTC 1999 |
Is there any commandthat gives a one to three line response, telling
me how much space I'm using (similair to the 'quota' command on M-net)?
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steve
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response 227 of 283:
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Feb 18 17:36 UTC 1999 |
Yes. At a shell prompt type du, it give you a listing of all
the directories sizes and a total.
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mcnally
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response 228 of 283:
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Feb 18 17:41 UTC 1999 |
Or, if you just want the total for your home directory, type "du -s ~"
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keesan
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response 229 of 283:
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Feb 18 20:50 UTC 1999 |
I lost a participation file yesterday or today. Did fixseen so as not to read
62 items as new. Yesterday between around 4 and 6 very slow, and then some
error messages about a/ being full, and then all sorts of odd messages so I
logged off. I assumed 4-6 was Indians reading email.
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aruba
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response 230 of 283:
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Feb 18 20:56 UTC 1999 |
In what units is the output of du?
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remmers
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response 231 of 283:
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Feb 18 21:54 UTC 1999 |
Grex's version of du gives usage in kilobytes. (Some versions give it in
units of 512-byte blocks.)
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aruba
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response 232 of 283:
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Feb 19 03:08 UTC 1999 |
Thanks.
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cmcgee
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response 233 of 283:
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Feb 19 04:00 UTC 1999 |
I'm still getting the "run on lines in bbs" problem. I have, however, found
a cure. I use menu, and usually when I go to bbs from menu the problem shows
up. If I quit, then use menu to go to pine, then quit, then use menu to go
to bbs again, the problem fixes itself.
Weird magic, but it works.
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keesan
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response 234 of 283:
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Feb 19 06:43 UTC 1999 |
I deleted just about everything I did not need from my home directory, which
is now down to about 100K (not counted www directory). Is there some command
I can run to see my total disk usage? (I downloaded useful files to my own
computer first).
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mcnally
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response 235 of 283:
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Feb 19 07:42 UTC 1999 |
re #230: if, like me, you go from SysV-ish systems to BSD-ish systems
regularly and can never remember what units du reports, you
can use the '-k' switch to tell it to report kbytes
puzzler for du experts: supposedly the '-b' switch which
supposedly reports bytes.. however, my home directory sizes
for '-b' and '-k' aren't even close to being a factor of 1024
apart. I get:
37 /a/m/c/mcnally
22515 /a/m/c/mcnally
So what's the deal? I suspect that -b is adding up the size
of files and -k is reporting blocks * blocksize, perhaps including
fragments used or unused. Or am I missing something?
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davel
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response 236 of 283:
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Feb 19 18:58 UTC 1999 |
I just got a modem connection that never gave me even the "may take a few
moments" message.
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jiffer
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response 237 of 283:
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Feb 19 19:32 UTC 1999 |
For some odd reason, I got a "bad partition" (?) and now agora reads like I
am newbish. Right now I am going through all the conf items again. bah
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cmcgee
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response 238 of 283:
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Feb 19 19:47 UTC 1999 |
I got that some modem dialing in about 8 minutes ago on 3000. 4931 is ok.
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senna
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response 239 of 283:
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Feb 22 12:58 UTC 1999 |
Okay. This is the first time I've successfully gotten onto grex. First, I
telnetted in, waited for the queue to drop, got a login prompt, typed in the
login, and waited. No password prompt. I typed a couple letters to see if
it was a flow problem. no password prompt. It echoed, too. Finally, I gave
up and dialed in. It gave me the "please wait" message and never showed me
a login prompt. I went downstairs and watched the Today show for 45 minutes.
I came upstairs and dialed in. It gave me a zero queue number. Pressing =
informed me that I was number zero of 35 in the queue. I never got a login.
I dialed in again. This time I was number 1 in the queue. I telnetted in,
waited for the queue to die, and entered this response.
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cmcgee
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response 240 of 283:
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Feb 22 13:46 UTC 1999 |
I got the same problem. Waited as 0 in the queue for 4+ minutes. Tried
dialling in again bacame 2 in the queue. Finally worked my way down and
logged in after about a 6 minute wait. Since when have dial-ins been queued?
BTW, I'd rather be at the head of the queue than have to attack dial to get
past busy signals.
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krj
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response 241 of 283:
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Feb 22 15:01 UTC 1999 |
Trying to run "mail", I get a message that /tmp is full.
Which df confirms. Help!
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cmcgee
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response 242 of 283:
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Feb 22 16:06 UTC 1999 |
Is that why the email that was sent to me over half an hour ago still hasn't
arrived?
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scott
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response 243 of 283:
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Feb 22 16:22 UTC 1999 |
Grex is reporting a really high load average, but feels plenty fast. I sent
mail to the rest of staff about this.
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steve
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response 244 of 283:
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Feb 22 16:48 UTC 1999 |
a delightful soul filled up /tmp with an incredible amount of garbage.
I've cleaned it all out now. I noticed the problem; I was a part of that
for a while but there was soemthing else going on. I elected to work on
/tmp instead of chase that one down, too.
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steve
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response 245 of 283:
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Feb 22 17:21 UTC 1999 |
After looking at the load averages, I concluded something odd
was going on, and had been since early this morning. Did a reboot
to see if that wouldn't fix things. So far the load averages are
reasonable.
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dpc
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response 246 of 283:
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Feb 22 19:55 UTC 1999 |
Well, just a few minutes ago I was happily reading my e-mail when
the System froze and then had the nerve to log me off! I assume
this is a separate problem from those caused by the "delightful soul."
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steve
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response 247 of 283:
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Feb 22 20:54 UTC 1999 |
I would bet so.
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other
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response 248 of 283:
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Feb 23 19:15 UTC 1999 |
I have weird screen formatting problems in pico when I use more than 80
columns width. ^L doesn't correct it.
For some reason it pushes the text up on the screen and the placement of the
cursor in the displayed text does not reflect where it acts on input.
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steve
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response 249 of 283:
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Feb 23 19:33 UTC 1999 |
What kind of terminal program are you using? Could be be a 24 line
system such that the 80th char on a line gets it off by a line?
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