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valerie
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System Problems
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Jun 21 15:44 UTC 1998 |
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tpryan
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response 1 of 234:
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Jun 21 16:29 UTC 1998 |
lynx http://usenetchannel.com does not work for me.
What is the least pages/keystrokes way to read newsgroups,
including alt.fan.weird-al, rec.music.dementia & rec.music.filk?
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keesan
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response 2 of 234:
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Jun 21 19:55 UTC 1998 |
When I try to use Pine or even Pico in mail I get a bunch of gibberish.
When I try to backspace while entering a reponse I get {D [D.
(not {D but [D), I can't make corrections). I was also treated as a newuser
when I typed bbs and only shown the first and last items of agora.
Isa it a system problem i or is my computer too hot or humid?
How can I send a file in mail, since I can't use pine? I tryed ~r and then
return and entered the file name and return, is that right? When I tried
to switch to pico to see what was in my message, I got gibberish again.
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keesan
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response 3 of 234:
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Jun 21 20:04 UTC 1998 |
The read new command skipped most of the itesm in agora.
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scott
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response 4 of 234:
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Jun 21 20:04 UTC 1998 |
Whoah, now, one question at a time... ;)
Problem #1 sounds like a terminal emulation mismatch. Did you change your
computer's emulation, or possibly your Grex . files?
Problem #2 is the normal thing that happens when Agora is rolled.
Problem #3 depends on your local microclimate. Are tornadoes attracted or
repelled from your computer?
Problem #4 should be fixed by solving #1, but in the meantime, the way to
include text in "mail" is to type ~r followed by the filename. Mail does
not support attachments, though, so ~r just reads text into the message body.
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scott
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response 5 of 234:
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Jun 21 20:06 UTC 1998 |
(keesan slipped in).
To see all the items in a new conference, try "read all" at the Ok: prompt.
Do it now while things or small, *or* you can let the "missing" items appear
in full as new (relative to your first reading) responses are added.
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keesan
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response 6 of 234:
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Jun 21 20:17 UTC 1998 |
I fixed the gibberish problem by completely exiting grex and redialing. Must
have been one of those mini-tornadoes on the line somewhere. I was also
getting miscellaneous things in mid-line all over the place. Logging out and
then logging in on the same line had not helped at all.
I had typed r n to read agora responses. Will try read all now.
Thanks for all the help, Scott.
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valerie
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response 7 of 234:
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Jun 21 22:46 UTC 1998 |
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birdlady
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response 8 of 234:
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Jun 22 00:13 UTC 1998 |
When I use one of my telnet programs (through netlink and not WMU like I am
now), I can't read the last line of the last response in an item. Is there
any way I can change my screen settings if I use that program, and how do I
find out what they are right now (so I can just add a line or two)?
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jerome
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response 9 of 234:
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Jun 23 04:31 UTC 1998 |
So why would the wait list summary report 67 remote users + 6 local,
72 max remote, but have a queue of 40? What happened to the other five
slots?
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jerome
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response 10 of 234:
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Jun 23 04:33 UTC 1998 |
And while I'm complaining... what happened to the mailer? Attempts to
send mail result in: "/usr/lib/sendmail: No such file or directory"
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srw
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response 11 of 234:
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Jun 23 06:21 UTC 1998 |
Tim, I don't know anything about http://usenetchannel.com
We usually recommend http://www.dejanews.com/ for usenet.
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tpryan
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response 12 of 234:
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Jun 23 21:20 UTC 1998 |
re 11: got it from running a "read news"--rn (or !rn):
News on Grex is down. Sorry!
It may be back in several months.
In the meantime, please load Lynx and go to http://www.dejanews.com/
or http://reference.com or http://usenetchannel.com
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valerie
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response 13 of 234:
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Jun 23 21:45 UTC 1998 |
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valerie
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response 14 of 234:
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Jun 23 21:47 UTC 1998 |
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keesan
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response 15 of 234:
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Jun 24 20:11 UTC 1998 |
Pine has become very slow recently, especially in composing messages.
Sometimes I wait 15 seconds to see a word appear after I type it. Could this
be related to increasing the number of telnet ports? And it is also slower
to display things from the inbox, and to send messages (I think). If it gets
much worse, I may go back to using M-net for e-mail. Someone from staff want
to check it out? Twice today same problem, an hour or so apart.
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aruba
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response 16 of 234:
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Jun 24 20:41 UTC 1998 |
The load average is quite high:
4:40pm up 6 days, 4:40, 78 users, load average: 74.28, 75.37, 75.62
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dpc
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response 17 of 234:
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Jun 24 20:50 UTC 1998 |
Ack! Are we under cyber-attack?
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other
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response 18 of 234:
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Jun 24 20:54 UTC 1998 |
4:54pm up 6 days, 4:54, 76 users, load average: 11.37, 11.70, 28.73
some mitigation...
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tpryan
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response 19 of 234:
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Jun 25 02:57 UTC 1998 |
I thought a promise was made not to increase the ptys and
put you back into the cycle of need to raise money to improve system
to supoort the large number of connections.
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scg
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response 20 of 234:
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Jun 25 04:58 UTC 1998 |
The idea is to find out how many users we can support without bogging the
system down. Bogging the system down is a bad idea, but we don't gain
anything by making people wait in the queue while there are spare CPU cycles.
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senna
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response 21 of 234:
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Jun 25 04:59 UTC 1998 |
Heh, I remember when I measured the quickness of pine in portions of hours.
I'd occasionally have to bump a key to prevent myself from getting lagged out
from inactivity while it loaded.
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mcnally
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response 22 of 234:
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Jun 25 06:02 UTC 1998 |
One thing to keep in mind is that Grex has had a couple of incidents
recently with people abusing the mail system. Sending out a huge
batch of mail can cause the load to skyrocket very quickly..
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keesan
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response 23 of 234:
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Jun 26 14:24 UTC 1998 |
STeve said there was a vandal on the system at the time when Pine was running
slowly, so it has nothing to do with number of users. Pine is back to
amazingly fast again today.
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srw
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response 24 of 234:
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Jun 27 05:48 UTC 1998 |
High load averages are almost never a function of user count. Really
high numbers like in the 70s usually indicate a resource hog, which can
be either a deliberate attack or clueless behavior. If a grex staffer
finds the system in that mode, he or she will take steps to restore
normal performance.
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