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        What with busy signal on fast modems, while ringing open
on slow modems?

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FWIW, I find that the browse [item headers] command ("b") is one of the
slowest command of picospan.  If it would make it faster to omit [finding out
about] the number of responses, whether it were linked or frozen, then I'd
vote for doing that.

When I dialled 7615041 just recently, I got the message that I was connected,
but I never got a login prompt - instead I started recieving tels immediately,
even though I was not yet logged onto grex.  What gives?

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#4:  happened to me as well, minus the tels

  Why is it that fairly frequently (perhaps one in eight or one in ten
  times..) when I log in through telnet the system will get to just about
  the point where I'd get my shell prompt and then fall back to the login:
  prompt?  (my best guess is that it has already started my login shell at
  this point but it could be that it's failing to spawn the shell properly
  for some reason (like being out of memory or processes..))  FWIW I use
  tcsh and have very bare-bones dotfiles..

For reasons that I don't think we know, tcsh crashes during
startup under certain circumstances, dumping you back to the
login prompt. Happens to me occasionally too. It also tends to
leave a largish core file in your home directory, so the next
time you log after a tcsh crash, you might want to check and see
if there's a core file there.

re
  Either the cron job that finds and removes old core files is extremely
  vigilant or tcsh makes it as far as "limit coredumpsize 0" when it's going
  through my dotfiles..

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  Yeah, come to think of it I guess that the "limit coredumpsize 0" would
  affect the processes forked by my tcsh but wouldn't be likely to have
  much effect on the core-dumping properties of the running tcsh process.
  What I suppose I *should* do, just in case, is create a 0 byte "core"
  file in my homedir and chmod or chown it so I don't wind up with a real
  corefile in there unless I want one..

I've linked this item from Winter to helpers.

Re open ringing, isn't centrex supposed to be programmed to forward open
ringing lines to other lines?  When you say you get open ringing, how long
have you waited?  It might take some time for the forwarding to happen.

Does "ttyuse" work?  Every time I try it get nothing and have to
interrupt out after several minutes.

Seems to be stuck.  Not doing anything for me either.

-3000 was ringing open earlier today.  From the pattern of rings it may have
been trunk hunting, I suppose, but it just rang & rang.  I then tried 5041
& got a modem, but it wouldn't connect with my 2400 bps modem.  <sigh>

The HVCN server seems to be down, meaning the Backtalk images
are kaput.

Grex was down this morning, which was likely your problem, Dave.

I thought HVCN had crashed this morning, too. It was not responding, and 
Dan was correct to note that it seemed down.

I went down at lunchtime to check on it and reboot it, but I found that 
it had just gotten its ethernet unplugged. I plugged it back in and 
everything was back to normal. HVCN was off the net from 11:12 am 
until 12:50 am. Looks like it got fixed just about the time Dan 
posted that.

Current HVCN uptime = 76 days.

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Thanx, valerie!

There has been a problem with people connecting to grex by telnet from 
some places. this has not affected most grex users. We don't really know 
which machines were affected, but we received complaints from a number 
of users in India. One whole domain was affected there. Other users on 
selected machines elsewhere were blocked as well. 

It only affected telnet. these hosts were able to access ftp, http, 
mail, finger, and other protocols. We have no idea what caused it. We 
were working on figuring it out when suddenly yesterday afternoon, the 
problem vanished, and everything appears to be working again.

Quite a mystery.

El Nino.

Sunspots.  Global Warming.  The Potato Blight.  Mother Theresa...

I did it with my mind. Just a subtle reminder to you of my awesome power. 8^}

*rotfl*

        rotfl? I haven't figured this one out. how about a hint.

  Rolling on the floor laughing..

That was too big of a hint.

        hold on i've almost got it. nope, it slipped by.

Would you like Cliff Notes?

Well, Ive been trying to log in on 4931, but after it rang 10 times (60 sec),
my software decided there wasnt going to be a carrier.  It did sound like it
was searching up the ladder after every 3rd ring.  

Im now logged in on 3000.

Why 4931?

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Um, Valerie, she *said* she's in on -3000.

(Is there anything special about -4931?  I know about -3000 and -5041, but
I didn't even know that number existed.)

It's usually been the last number in the slow group, right before the first
fast modems (no longer true, though).

I'm getting the impression that the last slow modem, ttyhc, has a modem that
is not With The Program right now.

        Re #31. I wont know til I meet him.

I ftp'd a binary file I named MOU.doc to grex and it showed up as such
in my directory, but I could not access it ("file does not exist"). I
mv'd it as MOU.* to MOUf.doc, and I could access that. What/why/when was
a hidden character appended to the file name, and is there a way to
prevent this?

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