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| 25 new of 234 responses total. |
scott
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response 75 of 234:
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Jul 18 21:04 UTC 1998 |
Oops, nobody announced it:
Grex was down from maybe midnight[?] to 9:10am this morning.
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aruba
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response 76 of 234:
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Jul 19 03:28 UTC 1998 |
uptime says:
11:27pm up 8 days, 13:18, 39 users, load average: 1.28, 1.43, 2.38
Was Grex up, but not accessible?
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scg
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response 77 of 234:
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Jul 19 06:28 UTC 1998 |
The console terminal crashed, which dropped Grex into ROM monitor. When that
happens, it's possible to tell Grex to resume where it left off, rather than
rebooting it.
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aruba
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response 78 of 234:
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Jul 19 14:52 UTC 1998 |
So uptime is not a reliable source of information on how long Grex has
been up?
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scott
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response 79 of 234:
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Jul 19 16:10 UTC 1998 |
It generally is. We should look into using a more reliable console PC.
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tsty
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response 80 of 234:
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Jul 20 08:53 UTC 1998 |
eieio ...no, what promted that question?
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tsty
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response 81 of 234:
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Jul 20 09:04 UTC 1998 |
oh, scg ... it was before i wnet to sleep ... and after i got up...which
may not be 36 hours, by count.
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eieio
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response 82 of 234:
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Jul 20 11:04 UTC 1998 |
Reference to a sign you posted on a particularly ornery machine once...
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tsty
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response 83 of 234:
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Jul 20 17:22 UTC 1998 |
expound please?
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eieio
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response 84 of 234:
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Jul 20 19:34 UTC 1998 |
The machine now lives somewhere along Platt Road...
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rtgreen
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response 85 of 234:
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Jul 21 00:17 UTC 1998 |
'..a more reliable console PC': What are the requirements? is it just
emulating a dumb terminal? If so, I have several ADM-3a's and an IBM 3101
that I would be most willing to donate.
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scott
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response 86 of 234:
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Jul 21 00:37 UTC 1998 |
Well, it's an original IBM PC, and it seems to lock up about once a month.
We used to use big 60-line Ann arbor Ambassador terminals, but I think those
got too flaky to use.
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davel
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response 87 of 234:
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Jul 21 21:22 UTC 1998 |
Some phone line may be ringing open. The last few times I've dialed in, it
rings several times, then rings differently (different rhythm, I think -
probably switching to another line), then connects.
This morning's crash garbaged my participation file. Bleah. But that was
quite a storm, and Grex was right to run & hide. 8-{)]
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tendo
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response 88 of 234:
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Jul 22 12:03 UTC 1998 |
why was grex not up yesterday? I really want to know.
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bruin
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response 89 of 234:
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Jul 22 12:13 UTC 1998 |
RE #88 Three words, tendo -- thunder and lightning.
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tendo
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response 90 of 234:
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Jul 22 12:32 UTC 1998 |
so grex hid from the storm?
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dpc
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response 91 of 234:
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Jul 22 17:54 UTC 1998 |
I added a bunch of lines to my .mailrc in an attempt to cut down on
those ridiculous large headers. Typical lines I added were
discard Received:
discard Message-ID:
Unfortunately, these didn't work. Is this a system problem or
my stupidity problem?
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keesan
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response 92 of 234:
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Jul 23 00:24 UTC 1998 |
How do you get the pine program to not list al the other recipients of e-mail?
Someone just sent me a change of address, but he also sent it to 100 or so
other people.
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remmers
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response 93 of 234:
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Jul 23 12:18 UTC 1998 |
Re resp:91 - I assume you're using the standard 'mail' program to
read mail. I can't find any mention of a 'discard' command in the
man page, so it appears not to be a system problem that it doesn't
work. This leaves the alternative... :)
Something that does work here is the 'retain' command. The arguments
should be the list of headers that you *do* want to see. For example,
you could put this in your .mailrc:
retain date to from subject
and 'mail' would show you just those four headers when it displays a
message.
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dpc
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response 94 of 234:
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Jul 23 14:45 UTC 1998 |
John, I am using the "discard" command at valerie's suggestion.
I tried it on M-Net, and it worked perfectly. However, on M-Net
I did *not* have colons; on Grex I did. Ergo, I'm going to delete
the colons.
Thanx for letting me know about the retain command!
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dpc
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response 95 of 234:
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Jul 23 14:48 UTC 1998 |
Yep, deleting those colons did the trick! Sometimes I'm so clever
I scare myself. 8-)
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dpc
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response 96 of 234:
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Jul 23 15:02 UTC 1998 |
Oh- I did encounter a *true* system problem late yesterday afternoon.
I dialed in on 761-3000, got a connection, entered my loginid and
password, and was promptly disconnected. I got the same thing on
761-4931.
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scott
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response 97 of 234:
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Jul 23 16:05 UTC 1998 |
There was a vandal bothering us for a while then, then until a little after
6pm we had it closed to get some tracking done.
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remmers
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response 98 of 234:
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Jul 23 17:37 UTC 1998 |
Re resp:94 - Hm... My problem was that I was looking at the 'mailx'
man page, not 'mail'. The mail page documents 'discard', but the
mailx page does not. Odd - I thought they were the same program.
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davel
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response 99 of 234:
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Jul 27 23:11 UTC 1998 |
The motd states, at present, in part:
> Are you having a problem with some feature of Grex? Have you read the FAQ?
> It contains answers to most common questions, and can easily be seen on the
> web at http://www.cyberspace.org/faq.html or by typing the "faq" command.
> (Type !faq if you are at a prompt other than a shell prompt.) -srw
However, running faq merely does nothing at all. It's a link to
/usr/local/grex-scripts/faq, whose contents are the following:
> #!/bin/sh
> #
> # Display Grex FAQ sheet
> #
> ###menumore /usr/local/grexdoc/grex-faq
>
Since the menumore line is commented out, it's not surprising that it
doesn't work, is it?
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