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| 25 new of 74 responses total. |
cmcgee
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response 10 of 74:
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Jan 3 03:32 UTC 2001 |
I've been able to dial in with no trouble since this (Tuesday) afternoon.
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aruba
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response 11 of 74:
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Jan 3 03:58 UTC 2001 |
I've been dialing in fine since Grex came back up.
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janc
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response 12 of 74:
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Jan 3 04:05 UTC 2001 |
Grex was not attacked. It crashed in a mode that required some mothering to
come back up. For some reason it's been getting unhappy about the /tmp
partition, of all things (that's where worthless temporary files are kept -
it is normally erased on each reboot). None of the staff was able to get
over there and talk to it for a while.
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cmcgee
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response 13 of 74:
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Jan 3 19:26 UTC 2001 |
Whine: just now I got hung up on when I dialed in.
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sh00tm3
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response 14 of 74:
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Jan 4 18:34 UTC 2001 |
some l33t k-rad hax0r prolly hax0r3d grex
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pfv
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response 15 of 74:
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Jan 7 16:08 UTC 2001 |
Time to scrub /c again: The irc-toys like bnc have all but filled
the drive.
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ea
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response 16 of 74:
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Jan 12 03:15 UTC 2001 |
Noticing a few new features with the backtalk upgrade. Not really a
problem, it just takes some getting used to.
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ea
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response 17 of 74:
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Jan 12 04:17 UTC 2001 |
First real problem that I've spotted with the new backtalk - while
using Pistachio to read an item, the title bar says "Grex AgoraAgora
Conference - Item 4 - Microsoft Internet Explorer"
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janc
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response 18 of 74:
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Jan 12 05:29 UTC 2001 |
Fixed that.
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mcnally
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response 19 of 74:
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Jan 13 02:45 UTC 2001 |
Some jerk has filled up /tmp with a 56MB file called .data
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mcnally
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response 20 of 74:
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Jan 13 02:46 UTC 2001 |
(and now it's fixed..)
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ea
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response 21 of 74:
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Jan 13 18:18 UTC 2001 |
Right now I am unable to log on via backtalk. I am getting error wrong
password messages. If I go to http://www.cyberspace.org/cgi-bin/bt I get a
"500 Internal Server Error"
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ea
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response 22 of 74:
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Jan 13 19:18 UTC 2001 |
seems to be resolved now.
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janc
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response 23 of 74:
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Jan 13 20:00 UTC 2001 |
Httpd was running out of processes, so it sometimes couldn't execute the
external authenticator, and sometimes couldn't execute backtalk. Some
idiot was running the web-based finger script on every user on the
system. Could have been one of those obnoxious web spiders.
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ea
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response 24 of 74:
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Jan 13 23:44 UTC 2001 |
Having a problem accessing my mail. If I ssh in to grex, then run pine, it
says cannot find /var/spool/mail/ea and then gives me a message about no inbox
being found. If I just use Telnet without the ssh, no such problem.
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scott
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response 25 of 74:
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Jan 14 00:06 UTC 2001 |
It should be in the FAQ, but apparently isn't yet. Something to do with ssh
not setting an environment variable, but I don't recall off the top of my head
which one.
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gull
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response 26 of 74:
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Jan 14 04:32 UTC 2001 |
As I recall the environment variable is MAIL. Log in via telnet and see
what value it's set to, then put a line in your .profile to set that
value and export it. Fixed it for me.
If you need more exact instructons, I can give them. But I'm
Backtalking right now, and I'm too lazy to log in and look at my
.profile. ;)
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mcnally
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response 27 of 74:
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Jan 14 05:43 UTC 2001 |
To complete scott and gull's answers --
Grex doesn't stash your mail spool in the traditional place for a
Unix system (/var/spool/mail/$USER) because with thousands of users
on Grex the number of entries in the /var/spool/mail directory would
then be huge and file system performance looking up entries in a
directory with thousands and thousands of entries is comparatively
"expensive" in terms of system time required. To spread out the load
a little and improve filesystem performance, mail spools are divided
among subdirectories according to the first and second characters of the
login id.
So my mail spool would be in /var/spool/mail/m/c/mcnally because the two
first letters of my login id, mcnally, are 'm' and 'c' respectively.
ea's mailbox would be in /var/spool/mail/e/a/ea
I have no idea how the scheme deals with the case of single-letter login
ids, or even if such ids are allowed on Grex.
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i
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response 28 of 74:
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Jan 14 06:41 UTC 2001 |
You get two guesses.
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mcnally
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response 29 of 74:
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Jan 14 08:05 UTC 2001 |
so where's your mail file kept, then, walter?
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mdw
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response 30 of 74:
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Jan 14 09:19 UTC 2001 |
Try
!man getmailfilename mailfmt
!cat /etc/mailfmt
I hope to update sshd with a version of openssh sometime soon.
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ea
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response 31 of 74:
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Jan 14 15:05 UTC 2001 |
So to fix the problem in ssh, just add a line to my .profile that says
setenv MAIL=/var/spool/mail/e/a/ea
or is there something else that I need to do?
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remmers
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response 32 of 74:
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Jan 14 18:58 UTC 2001 |
Since your login shell is .csh, you should put the line
setenv MAIL /var/spool/mail/e/a/ea
in your .login file (note: no "=" character in the command).
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lk
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response 33 of 74:
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Jan 14 18:58 UTC 2001 |
That line should go in your .login (as csh is your login shell).
Those with sh/ksh variants should do:
MAIL=/var/spool/mail/x/y/xyz
export MAIL
Where xyz is their login ID.
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lk
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response 34 of 74:
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Jan 14 18:59 UTC 2001 |
Wups, remmers slipped in, but that's a good thing as I didn't look
closely enough to notice the extraneous "=".
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