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krj
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response 63 of 162:
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Aug 14 17:34 UTC 1999 |
"ton" was a straight copy of the code from M-net, and on M-net their
policy is to restart the wtmp file every month. Grex doesn't restart
the wtmp file very often. If I remember correctly, Grex's "ton"
is reporting time on since April 2.
To make "ton" behave correctly it would have to be modified to only
count the current month's connections, and then I don't know how it would
handle a mid-month rollover of the file.
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krj
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response 64 of 162:
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Aug 14 19:15 UTC 1999 |
Grex seems to be suffering from network routing problems this afternoon.
I cannot connect from tir.com or msen.com, but I can get here from
Michnet. This may be related to keesan's problem in #62?
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hhsrat
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response 65 of 162:
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Aug 14 19:45 UTC 1999 |
Keesan - instead of a tilde in a URL, you can substitute %7E so
http://www.site.com/~user would become http://www.site.com/%7Euser
Everyone - the MOTD is too long. There's 2 items about system
maintnence, 2 about the lawsuit, 1 about the Grex ad on arborweb.com, 1
about the grexwalk, and 1 birthday. Couldn't the system maintnence
items be combined, the lawsuit items be combined, and the arborweb.com
thing be deleted? The arborweb thing has been there for several months.
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tpryan
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response 66 of 162:
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Aug 14 21:10 UTC 1999 |
I just got done reffering to a hURL with a tilde.
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scott
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response 67 of 162:
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Aug 14 22:47 UTC 1999 |
(scott thinks hhsrat is a too young to remember the huge motds of the olde
days...)
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scott
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response 68 of 162:
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Aug 14 22:57 UTC 1999 |
There have been nasty routing problems going on all day, and part of
yesterday. Nothing that is Grex's fault, though. :(
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hhsrat
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response 69 of 162:
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Aug 15 00:50 UTC 1999 |
Maybe I am too young to remember older, longer MOTD's, but, IMHO, a full
screen of MOTD announcements is too much.
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pfv
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response 70 of 162:
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Aug 15 18:43 UTC 1999 |
One, "Compleete Screene" (tm) is more than enough, I agree..
It's all gone with even a line or two of scrolling after the
blasted shell wakes up..
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keesan
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response 71 of 162:
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Aug 15 21:06 UTC 1999 |
The tilde works now, for some reason. But it is very slow to access a website
on grex by typing lynx www.grex.org/~user. Is there some more direct
way to get at a website on grex? (Such as the new kiwanis site).
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drew
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response 72 of 162:
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Aug 15 22:49 UTC 1999 |
www.grex.org/u/s/user I think. That is, the user directory is two levels down
from root, in a directory and subdir named with the first and second letters
in the user name. To wit, mine would be www.grex.org/d/r/drew if I were to
bother to set it up.
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don
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response 73 of 162:
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Aug 15 23:20 UTC 1999 |
Actually, it would be www.grex.org/u/s/user/www. /.../user is the home
directory.
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jazz
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response 74 of 162:
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Aug 15 23:39 UTC 1999 |
There was a major fibre cut in the Chicago area, Ken, and although it
did not affect the Chicago NAP per se, it did affect a number of companies'
connections to the Chicago NAP.
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scg
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response 75 of 162:
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Aug 16 02:36 UTC 1999 |
User www directories on grex are in the form http://www.grex.org/~user.
The forms drew and don are suggesting wouldn't get you anywhere useful.
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tsty
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response 76 of 162:
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Aug 16 08:53 UTC 1999 |
z-mod4em trouble ..... gets to 10240 bytes and freezes for awhile, or,
immediately disconnects. if it has just frozen it gets to 32764 bytes
and freezes for a while, or, disconnects. if it has frozen,
it gets to someting inthe 40s and disconnects.
dialed in to -3000, mesg n
and sz -b <fylename>, the std
s'matter wid dis? you-sta work JustFine (tm)?
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dpc
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response 77 of 162:
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Aug 16 14:04 UTC 1999 |
I had been on a dialin for about half an hour when the System
hung up on me at 10:00! I've logged back on (obviously), and
here is the info about my last login:
Last login: Mon Aug 16 09:26:04 on ttyuc from 204.212.46.132
So, whatever dialin is represented by ttyuc hung up.
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dpc
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response 78 of 162:
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Aug 16 14:13 UTC 1999 |
Grex just hung up on me *again*! Here the last login info:
Last login: Mon Aug 16 10:02:38 on ttyr8 from 204.212.46.132
Each of the times I was hung up on, I had dialed in on 761-3000.
This time I came in on 761-4931. We'll see how long it lasts...
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scott
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response 79 of 162:
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Aug 16 16:29 UTC 1999 |
modems are not hard-wired to specific tty ports.
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tpryan
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response 80 of 162:
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Aug 20 03:06 UTC 1999 |
Why doesn't lynx guess .gov s in it's list of 'trying'?
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davel
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response 81 of 162:
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Aug 20 10:35 UTC 1999 |
Well, it also doesn't try .fi or .uk or .au etc.
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albaugh
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response 82 of 162:
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Aug 20 19:58 UTC 1999 |
Newuser just told me at the "Enter your FULL name?" prompt:
Sorry -- no periods allowed in name.
*I'm* sorry - most people put a period after their middle initial.
I'm sure it's some kind of shell user input limitation kind of crud,
but I found it annoying.
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mdw
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response 83 of 162:
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Aug 21 03:37 UTC 1999 |
Actually, it's a special character in mail addresses.
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drewmike
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response 84 of 162:
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Aug 21 03:44 UTC 1999 |
Wouldn't a FULL name not have abbreviations?
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remmers
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response 85 of 162:
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Aug 21 14:17 UTC 1999 |
Why should email address restrictions affect newuser?
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albaugh
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response 86 of 162:
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Aug 21 15:29 UTC 1999 |
> Wouldn't a FULL name not have abbreviations?
Good point: Legally, on forms, it often will say name (last, first,
middle), while others will say name (last, first, mi). "Full name" may
be generally interpreted as the former. But there are many
circumstances where "first mi. last" is common/accepted/etc.
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steve
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response 87 of 162:
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Aug 22 07:22 UTC 1999 |
You don't want that in a mail header, however. There are reasons for
keeping periods out of the fullname field in the passwd file, since the
fn field is used in mail headers.
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