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remmers
response 231 of 283: Mark Unseen   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.)
aruba
response 232 of 283: Mark Unseen   Feb 19 03:08 UTC 1999

Thanks.
cmcgee
response 233 of 283: Mark Unseen   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.
keesan
response 234 of 283: Mark Unseen   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).
mcnally
response 235 of 283: Mark Unseen   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?
davel
response 236 of 283: Mark Unseen   Feb 19 18:58 UTC 1999

I just got a modem connection that never gave me even the "may take a few
moments" message.
jiffer
response 237 of 283: Mark Unseen   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
cmcgee
response 238 of 283: Mark Unseen   Feb 19 19:47 UTC 1999

I got that some modem dialing in about 8 minutes ago on 3000.  4931 is ok.
senna
response 239 of 283: Mark Unseen   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.
cmcgee
response 240 of 283: Mark Unseen   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.  
krj
response 241 of 283: Mark Unseen   Feb 22 15:01 UTC 1999

Trying to run "mail", I get a message that /tmp is full.  
Which df confirms.  Help!
cmcgee
response 242 of 283: Mark Unseen   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?
scott
response 243 of 283: Mark Unseen   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.
steve
response 244 of 283: Mark Unseen   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.
steve
response 245 of 283: Mark Unseen   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.
dpc
response 246 of 283: Mark Unseen   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."
steve
response 247 of 283: Mark Unseen   Feb 22 20:54 UTC 1999

  I would bet so.
other
response 248 of 283: Mark Unseen   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.
steve
response 249 of 283: Mark Unseen   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?
rcurl
response 250 of 283: Mark Unseen   Feb 23 21:01 UTC 1999

Come to think of it, ^L has stopped reloading the screen. Is it me or Grex?
janc
response 251 of 283: Mark Unseen   Feb 23 22:04 UTC 1999

I don't think Grex has ever done that.  Well, "gate" and "vi" each do
some kind of redraw if you type ^L.  But that is specific to those programs.
flem
response 252 of 283: Mark Unseen   Feb 23 22:55 UTC 1999

Pico used to, at least several years ago when I actually used it. 
other
response 253 of 283: Mark Unseen   Feb 24 05:57 UTC 1999

i experience the same problem using versaterm 5, zterm 0.9 and telnet 2.6.

the problem is consistent whenever i have stty cols >80 and am composing mail
in pine or a response in bbs using pico as the editor.
dpc
response 254 of 283: Mark Unseen   Feb 25 21:15 UTC 1999

Grex is appallingly s-l-o-w right now, yet the load average is low.
What's happening?
steve
response 255 of 283: Mark Unseen   Feb 26 04:21 UTC 1999

   I'm not sure since I wasn't around then, but the uptime log shows
the load av rising just about that time for about 10 minutes and slowly
going back down.
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