This item is for system problems.  If something on Grex isn't working 
right (line noise on a modem, weird behavior from a program, etc.), 
this is the place to announce it.  Except for security holes.  If you 
find a hole in system security, mail information about it to "staff".

237 responses total.

I am not seeing all the item numbers when I read agora.  I see item 12, and
then there are at least two items after that for which I see the responses
by numbers but not the item number, title, or description (these are new
items, I presume).  I dial in.

Could be because they're entered by someone on your twit filter?

It's rather likely.

Might be.  They are also not there when I type 'b'.  It stops at 12.

They;ve been entered by polytarp.

<tsk-tsk>

haha

Sunday evening around 8-8:30 I sent two separate emails with one attachment
each and neither attachment got through.  This was two translations that they
wanted back Monday during the daytime.  This has happened before a few times.
The attachments were 8-16K.  I just sent them again and I hope I have not lost
a client.

I've been getting a "we do not relay" error for mail sent from grex to
someone at yahoo.com:

  dmoffa6 at yahoo.com: loses; [USER] 550 <dmoffa6@yahoo.com>... Relaying
  Denied

Irritating.

Sounds like something broken with somebody else's mailer.

At MH's "What now?" prompt?  (I've not investigated to see how verbose the
default "s" (for "send") is here on grex.)

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Could be it's the only address that I've had occasion to send to from grex.

Yeah, I think Dan's on the right track:

What now? s
  gelinas at umich.edu: loses; [USER] 550 <gelinas@umich.edu>... Relaying
  Denied
post: 1 addressee undeliverable
send: message not delivered to anyone

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Could be mh is misconfigured too.  There are lots of ways it could be
trying to send mail, and some of them probably will lose.

This response has been erased.

No, but I hadn't used MH for outgoing mail before.  I don't usually send _any_
mail from grex.  So until now, Pine has been sufficient for the little bit
of test-mail I've sent.

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There's a new RISKS digest out, but I cannot get to ftp.sri.com to
get it here.

I got it in email, but I already deleted it.  Sorry.

I'm having a bit of a backtalk issue.  When using the "view responses" 
textbox, and pressing enter (while in the textbox), rather than showing 
me those responses, it takes me to the "Set Private Item Title" screen

Which browser?  Browser behavior varies on this one.

I noticed an extreme slogginess in grex response this morning.  When
I checked top, it showed some pretty hungry sendmail processes.  The
load was over 2 which probably isn't horrid, but if those sendmail
documents were of any volume, the pipeline was probably stressed.

If grex is supposed to handle large volumes of mail, then ignore
this report.

re #23 - Opera

OK, I thought it might be Opera.  Valerie had the same problem with Opera,
but I haven't seen it with any other browser.  We tracked it down a bit
further and, though I don't remember the details, what Opera was doing was
simply weird.  I think Valerie submitted it to them as a bug report.

The chantab file /var/spool/party/chantab is corrupted.  There are several
places where there are partial lines followed by a series of blank lines and
then additional partial lines, which do not match up to the previous partial
lines.  (It's not a case of several carriage returns appearing in the middle
of a line.)

Can a clean copy be pulled from a backup, or should a partyadm just go through
and clean up as best we can?

Received a few telegrams this afternoon from people asking that an item be
posted about /c being full or nearly full.

Why was grex not answering the phone for the past 24 hours or so?

It was down.  I rebooted it.  I think the UPS isn't doing the right
thing, but I don't know.

Can you put that in the motd please?

Re #30:  The modems are only down when the power is down, so that
would tend to implicate the UPS.

Why did I get 86 brandnew items when I just entered Agora?

Sounds like your participation file got trashed as a side effect
of /c (where your home directory is) filling up.

With Scott and Valerie mostly out of the disk police business, staff isn't
as much on top of disk space as we have been in the past.  I did a quick
pass through things deleting some huge disk hogs.  That should at least
temporarily keep things going.

Someone to whom I sent a binary file as an attachment reports that it arrived
(in 7-bit format) as part of the message body.  This was a translation and
it has wasted quite a bit  of time to figure out what went wrong and resend.
What might be happening?  At other times the attachments have not arrived at
all.

Did you set the file transfer to binary?

Yes, I always send kermit -ir.  It was coded base 64 and remained part of the
message body.  Maybe his mail program goofed? 

The modem on -3596 appears to be hosed.  It connects, but it 
will not transfer any data (it went down abruptly this
morning and is still not working).

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