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keesan
response 65 of 293: Mark Unseen   Jan 7 21:46 UTC 2002

Happened to me again a few minutes ago.
aruba
response 66 of 293: Mark Unseen   Jan 7 21:59 UTC 2002

Me too.  I'm guessing the modem on 761-3000 is flaky.
wh
response 67 of 293: Mark Unseen   Jan 7 22:38 UTC 2002

3000 still answers, no still response. Got in on 5041.
iconn
response 68 of 293: Mark Unseen   Jan 8 08:14 UTC 2002


davel
response 69 of 293: Mark Unseen   Jan 9 01:00 UTC 2002

I thought the modems were on a hunt sequence.
keesan
response 70 of 293: Mark Unseen   Jan 9 16:31 UTC 2002

The problem with the modems continues.
Yesterday I checked out whether the inability to download a file of more than
12 packets with Kermit was related to my modem or to something at grex by
downloading 30 packets at m-net without crashing.  So something is wrong with
either the grex modems (or most of them, once in a while it works) or with
the Kermit installation at grex, another reason to replace the modems soon
with the nice faster ones that Dang found a Property Disposition.  
davel
response 71 of 293: Mark Unseen   Jan 10 01:16 UTC 2002

(That's rather different from a modem that answers but won't connect you to
the termserver.)
carson
response 72 of 293: Mark Unseen   Jan 12 19:36 UTC 2002

The home page for Grex indicates a continuing tie in an election to the
board of directors of Cyberspace Communications.  My understanding is the
tie described has since been resolved.
polytarp
response 73 of 293: Mark Unseen   Jan 13 01:39 UTC 2002

Today I noticed something strange:
polytarp ttyp0     8:28pm     1     32         w
newuser  ttyp0     5:13pm     1     32         w

I don't have any idea what's happening.
gull
response 74 of 293: Mark Unseen   Jan 14 13:46 UTC 2002

Door.
scott
response 75 of 293: Mark Unseen   Jan 15 23:22 UTC 2002

I've reprogrammed the bulk of the modems (couldn't get to the ones in use when
I was doing it.)  Any problems lately?  Dialup has been working fine for me
the last couple of days.
aruba
response 76 of 293: Mark Unseen   Jan 16 15:53 UTC 2002

Me too.
remmers
response 77 of 293: Mark Unseen   Jan 17 10:30 UTC 2002

Re #75:  You mean you don't just kick users off when they're in your
way?  What kind of a sysop are you?  :)
davel
response 78 of 293: Mark Unseen   Jan 17 13:53 UTC 2002

Was Grex down for quite a while yesterday?  Dialin got the message from the
termserver & then hung up.  Telnet in simply got connection refused.
keesan
response 79 of 293: Mark Unseen   Jan 17 15:57 UTC 2002

I was online and got the message from woot@grex.cyberspace.org that grex was
'sicxk' and was immediately going offline, I think it was mid-evening.
Today lynx will not access any sites but the grex home page on lynx -
presumably grex is not connected to the world except by phone.
richard
response 80 of 293: Mark Unseen   Jan 17 16:42 UTC 2002

the motd says it was something to do with the mail.  I guess grex is
vulnerable to being attacked via someone setting up a .forward file
and forwarding some giant mailing list through here, or something
keesan
response 81 of 293: Mark Unseen   Jan 17 16:54 UTC 2002

Lynx is now working over the net again.
other
response 82 of 293: Mark Unseen   Jan 17 17:34 UTC 2002

Just now got "no room for file" error trying to update MOTD.
slynne
response 83 of 293: Mark Unseen   Jan 17 21:04 UTC 2002

Is it possible to customize the colors in backtalk? Whenever I used to 
read Agora using the pistachio interface, it used to have a very nice 
color scheme. Then, today, for no apparent reason, the background color 
changed to a kind of weird pale green that totally clashes with the 
green color of the buttons and it is icky. I want to change the 
background color back to the nice muted yellow it was before. Can I do 
that?
mdw
response 84 of 293: Mark Unseen   Jan 17 22:02 UTC 2002

The mail forwarding was an unlucky combination of spam & anti-spam
duelling it out, with grex's mqueue being the battle ground.  People
regularly set up giant mailing lists and forward them through grex, and
we delete them almost as regularly when we notice them -- usually
network lag gives them away.  Lynx breaking is because I had to reboot
the machine the web proxy was running on, in order to get grex running
again, and didn't know that the web proxy doesn't (or didn't)
automatically restart.  I understand it's fixed now, and it's not really
related to the e-mail fit, it was just there lurking to strike when
least expected, and I walked into it.  I'm not sure why other ran out of
filespace; doesn't seem to be shortage just now and certainly /etc/motd
isn't that big.
janc
response 85 of 293: Mark Unseen   Jan 18 01:10 UTC 2002

Re 83: Oops, I installed a new version of Backtalk today and didn't copy 
over all the Grex configurations.  I'll fix it.
other
response 86 of 293: Mark Unseen   Jan 18 02:28 UTC 2002

Now getting a [ Cannot open file for writing ] error when updating /etc/motd.
gelinas
response 87 of 293: Mark Unseen   Jan 18 04:52 UTC 2002

Uuhh...

} Respond, pass, forget, quit, or ? for more options? !ls -alF /etc/motd
} -rw-rw-r--   1 mdw      staff         421 Jan 17 23:05 /etc/motd
} 
} Respond, pass, forget, quit, or ? for more options? !groups other
} other : people motd members voters usenet internet 

Perhaps the 'group' of /etc/motd is wrong?
aruba
response 88 of 293: Mark Unseen   Jan 18 05:56 UTC 2002

I think that's right.  I put the board officers in the MOTD.  I'm currently
in group staff, though, which is why I could do that.
other
response 89 of 293: Mark Unseen   Jan 18 06:21 UTC 2002

Isn't /etc/motd supposed to be owned by group motd so that members of 
group motd have write access to it?
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