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sno
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response 250 of 292:
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Dec 3 17:38 UTC 1999 |
I just experienced an annoying flaw in the idle time manager. While
composing a response offline, I saw both the 15 minute idle warning
and the 5 minute boot off message simultaneously. The warning would
have been nice since I was still present and accountable and could
have easily reset the counter with a keypress.
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orinoco
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response 251 of 292:
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Dec 3 18:14 UTC 1999 |
....ooop, and now it's dragging again.
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gelinas
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response 252 of 292:
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Dec 4 06:09 UTC 1999 |
} Respond, pass, forget, quit, or ? for more options? !df .
} Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
} /dev/sd1c 1944365 1749828 101 100% /a
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katie
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response 253 of 292:
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Dec 4 09:45 UTC 1999 |
Yeah, for a while there I couldn't send mail because it was full and I
have no children. Whatever that means. Plus I couldn't enter responses
because of all the fullness.
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spooked
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response 254 of 292:
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Dec 4 11:20 UTC 1999 |
We are getting a new disk added, but STeve is busy with other committments
at the moment. He will add it he assures staff when he's finished with his
other work (which hopefully won't be too long down the track). Please be
patient until then (staff are well aware of the problem).
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davel
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response 255 of 292:
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Dec 4 14:11 UTC 1999 |
Somebody explain the facts of life to Katie ...
8-{)]
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tpryan
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response 256 of 292:
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Dec 4 18:16 UTC 1999 |
I know I can do a 'ls -als|more' to review the files I have on the
system and remove some that where only meant to say a little while. I
know others here can do the same. But us who use bbs are less than 10%
of the system users. Anyway to get the word out to the other users?
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keesan
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response 257 of 292:
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Dec 4 20:28 UTC 1999 |
just got no carrier immediately when I typed pine (twice), but mail
gave no problems. From Kiwanis, where we pay for each phone call 10 c.
Why?
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spooked
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response 258 of 292:
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Dec 5 02:20 UTC 1999 |
RE: resp: 256 Just added a message to the motd.
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cmcgee
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response 259 of 292:
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Dec 5 03:48 UTC 1999 |
Ok, what is the limit I should have in my directory? And is there any way
to compress mail folders?
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mcnally
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response 260 of 292:
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Dec 5 06:03 UTC 1999 |
Others may have an opinion on how much disk space you "should" use;
my only recommendation is "as little as you can, but no less.."
As far as compressing mail folders -- most Unix mail programs won't
read/write compressed folders directly, so you won't be able to use
them while they're compressed, but for things you aren't actively
using, you can compress them using the "gzip" command from within
a Unix shell. For example:
grex% gzip -v -9 old_mail.mbox
old_mail.mbox: 50.4% -- replaced with old_mail.mbox.gz
Which would compress the file to slightly less than half its original
size (typically gzip compresses much better than 50% on text files,
actually. 70-80% compression is pretty common.)
grex% gzip -d old_mail.mbox.gz
or
grex% gunzip old_mail.mbox.gz
will restore your compressed file.
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flem
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response 261 of 292:
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Dec 5 06:11 UTC 1999 |
The disk space message looks pretty funny in my Backtalk window. :)
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gelinas
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response 262 of 292:
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Dec 5 06:21 UTC 1999 |
Well "quota -v" {"!quota -v" at a bbs prompt} suggests 1 megabyte (1024
kilobytes).
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spooked
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response 263 of 292:
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Dec 5 06:40 UTC 1999 |
Yes, 1MB, though it's not dynamically enforced.
Thanks, Mike. For naive and UNIX frigthened users, filebrowse writeen by
Valerie allows compression of files amongst its many options.
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don
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response 264 of 292:
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Dec 5 18:24 UTC 1999 |
Isn't there something you can set to have a file system-commpressed through
chattr?
Also, if I were to compress the files that I do use often and then just have
a shell program to uncompress, run the program, and then compress, would the
tradeoff between extra disk space and used computer cycles be any good?
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don
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response 265 of 292:
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Dec 5 20:40 UTC 1999 |
Another thing that could be done as a stopgap until we get a new disk mounted
is to graft some space from /tmp and add it to /a (if I recall, they are
partitions on the same disk; otherwize there's probably some not-as-easy way
to graft).
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pfv
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response 266 of 292:
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Dec 5 20:42 UTC 1999 |
The entire point is moot, as long as the space is filled with
the same data, for the same reasons, repeatedly.
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mcnally
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response 267 of 292:
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Dec 5 21:10 UTC 1999 |
re #265: unless it's going to be quite a while before anyone can
attend to the new disk, it'd be better not to mess with the partition
layout of currently-active partitions.. besides, it would almost
certainly take less time to hook up the new drive, partition it,
newfs, and mount it, than it would to back up /a, re-do /tmp and /a,
etc..
re #266: you really just can't deal with the fact that staff isn't
interested in ruling Grex with an iron fist, can you? it seems like
we've rehashed this over and over again: YES, the freedom afforded
to users here on Grex allows some abuses, and YES, I'm sure there's
a copy or two of eggdrop source (or whatever your latest bogeyman
happens to be..) taking up space that we could use right now.
but for the last time, NO, a couple of useless copies of eggdrop are
*not* the real problem here..
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scott
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response 268 of 292:
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Dec 5 21:56 UTC 1999 |
Interesting... it looks like this is one of those indirect y2k things. Turns
out at least one of the rare staffers that knows how to add another disk to
Sun systems is too busy at his money job certifying that all systems are y2k
compliant to have enough free time to actually install a disk.
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scott
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response 269 of 292:
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Dec 6 00:16 UTC 1999 |
I just got disconnected when one of the cats kicked over the phone. I demand
Grex staff do something about this! ;)
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mcnally
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response 270 of 292:
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Dec 6 00:25 UTC 1999 |
If STeve can't get to it before then, as an early Christmas present to
Grex I'll volunteer to install a new disk once I've gotten past my current
state of end-of-the-academic-term madness..
Until I finish my final programming projects, though, I sadly can't spare
any volunteer time.
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spooked
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response 271 of 292:
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Dec 6 01:11 UTC 1999 |
Thanks for your offer, Mike!
Thanks to STeve's wizardry, he got the disk usage down quite a bit, but still
not in a comfort zone. Probably also assisted a little by people deleting
some personal files per motd.
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cmcgee
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response 272 of 292:
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Dec 6 16:41 UTC 1999 |
Special thank you to Grex staff (scott particularly) and users, and an
apology. Scott took the time to tell me how to do some unix stuff so that
I now know how to download files from grex to my computer. Other folks told
me how to compress and uncompress files. The outcome was that I offloaded
_ALL_ my old mail folders to my own computer for long-term storage.
But some of those were huge files, and I probably exceeded all good-manners
limits in doing so. So an apology to everyone who was slowed by my excessive
use of bandwith in service to cleaning up my excessive use of disk space.
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don
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response 273 of 292:
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Dec 6 22:31 UTC 1999 |
What do you mean by "STeve's wizardry"? What kind of things did he do to clear
up space?
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spooked
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response 274 of 292:
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Dec 6 23:37 UTC 1999 |
That's a good question. He never tells his secrets (=
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