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Grex > Helpers > #142: Grex System Problems - Summer 2005 | |
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dpc
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response 80 of 281:
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Jul 11 14:24 UTC 2005 |
A few minutes ago I tried to dial in on 484-0512. The System picked
up, but I got no connection. Then I tried the other line, 484-0513. I
got an endless ring.
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keesan
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response 81 of 281:
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Jul 11 14:55 UTC 2005 |
I get the same effect, it has been several days. Gelinas, where are you?
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bru
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response 82 of 281:
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Jul 12 20:43 UTC 2005 |
why is every item in agora showing as new?
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keesan
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response 83 of 281:
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Jul 12 22:15 UTC 2005 |
Because /a got filled up while you were trying to write to it or access agora
and your participation file disappeared, same as mine did. Type fixseen and
you will see only new responses starting from when you typed it.
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keesan
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response 84 of 281:
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Jul 13 20:43 UTC 2005 |
The 0512 modem has been hanging up on me every few minutes (while writing
emails). I am back to telnetting (via a connection that freezes up every few
minutes but is behaving at the present).
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drew
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response 85 of 281:
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Jul 14 20:55 UTC 2005 |
484-0512 was ringing open as of around 3:30 PM.
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keesan
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response 86 of 281:
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Jul 14 21:58 UTC 2005 |
Vandal using up 99% of cpu time (top). I am told 0513 rings without answering
- it used to have the working modem on it. It has been a week, someone PLEASE
fix this problem.
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gelinas
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response 87 of 281:
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Jul 15 03:42 UTC 2005 |
Gelinas is not as free as he would like to be.
I stopped by Provide.net this afternoon. I put a phone on the two wall jacks:
the dial tone was clear. I swapped the two cables, effectively swapping the
modems. At the time, neither modem was in use.
Next time I'm there, I'll try putting a phone on the other end of our cables,
to see what that sounds like.
BTW, it looks like I swapped the modems around 15:00 on 14 Jul 2005.
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mary
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response 88 of 281:
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Jul 15 12:57 UTC 2005 |
Thanks, Joe. Like you need a third job, eh?
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naftee
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response 89 of 281:
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Jul 15 14:18 UTC 2005 |
Thanks mary, eh!
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keesan
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response 90 of 281:
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Jul 15 16:57 UTC 2005 |
Thanks, I will try 0513 and 0512 and hope one of them answers and also does
not drop the connection.
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keesan
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response 91 of 281:
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Jul 15 23:31 UTC 2005 |
0512 is working - connected and has not yet disconnected.
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gelinas
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response 92 of 281:
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Jul 16 01:09 UTC 2005 |
Sounds like it's the modem, then.
I wonder if we kept any.
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scholar
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response 93 of 281:
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Jul 16 01:19 UTC 2005 |
AHAHAHAH< FEATURING JOE "GEL IN ASS" GELINAS
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keesan
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response 94 of 281:
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Jul 16 14:16 UTC 2005 |
I spoke too soon. I got disconnected shortly afterwards, and then could not
get back on - No Carrier twice when I tried. Someone else reported the same
problem with this line and the other modem. Line noise? 0513 is said to just
ring, and to not work from some locations in Ann Arbor. Could the phone
company be persuaded to give us two different lines?
My modem here just survived the thunderstorm by some miracle.
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naftee
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response 95 of 281:
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Jul 16 14:25 UTC 2005 |
AHAHAHA< BUT YOUR PUBIC HAIR DIDN"T AHAHAHA< GUESS YOU DON"T HAVE TO SHAVE
TODAY : IT"S ALL BURNT
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keesan
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response 96 of 281:
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Jul 16 18:34 UTC 2005 |
The other grexer said 512 is working properly now but I asked him to describe
exactly what was wrong before.
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keesan
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response 97 of 281:
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Jul 16 21:02 UTC 2005 |
I don't see the last line of what I wrote above. I keep getting disconnected
from 512 but I can at least dial back. A short file download showed that most
of the packets had CRC errors - noisy line? (WCC connection is even deader
than grex this weekend).
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naftee
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response 98 of 281:
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Jul 17 23:52 UTC 2005 |
ahaha, /a is full
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mcnally
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response 99 of 281:
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Jul 18 02:50 UTC 2005 |
I moved several hundred accounts from /a to /c and did some other clean-up
on /a. There's now about 550 Mbytes of free space on /a, which should last
for a while (one hopes.)
I'd meant to do this much sooner but there hasn't been an opportune time to
do it. I'm in the process of a household move and my home computers have
been packed up and put into storage until I work out where I'm going to wind
up, and I can't really spare the time to do it from work -- short quick fixes
from work are OK but although it's not that complex, moving several hundred
homedirs and making sure that things still work properly afterwards still
isn't something you want to do while in a rush.
This weekend I finally borrowed a laptop from work and found some time to
make the fix. So I'm sorry for the inconvenience it's caused in the meantime;
I hope this will alleviate the /a crisis long enough for me to get settled in
to my new living quarters where I'll have time to look into making a longer-
term fix.
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naftee
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response 100 of 281:
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Jul 18 03:35 UTC 2005 |
thanks for the new /c crowd, mike !
welcome, eprom !
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twenex
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response 101 of 281:
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Jul 18 08:52 UTC 2005 |
Thanks, mike, and good luck with the new digs!
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naftee
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response 102 of 281:
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Jul 18 14:58 UTC 2005 |
thanks, twenex, and welcome !
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keesan
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response 103 of 281:
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Jul 18 16:48 UTC 2005 |
Mike, we love you! When can you start on a spam filter?
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mcnally
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response 104 of 281:
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Jul 18 17:23 UTC 2005 |
Realistically speaking, not until after I've moved, and only then after
some thought about how to make it work simply and with minimal resource
consumption. I'm disappointed by the disk consumption problem with using
SpamAssassin with per-user Bayesian filtering. If we expect a lot of
people to elect filtering I'd like to figure out a Better Way so that
we can offer it as an opt-in item in newuser without having all the
space we save by filtering out Spam eaten up by spamfilter token databases..
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