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Grex > Helpers > #138: Grex System Problems - Winter 2004/2005 |  |
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kentn
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response 102 of 870:
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Dec 31 22:47 UTC 2004 |
Okay, thanks for the question on which pager I was using. It's the
subtle things that get you on a system change, it seems. Since more is
essentially the same as less now and I had "define pager more" before I
made it "define page 'less -R -E'" now and that seems to have fixed the
ANSI escape problem I was having with bbs.
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cross
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response 103 of 870:
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Dec 31 23:10 UTC 2004 |
This response has been erased.
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keesan
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response 104 of 870:
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Dec 31 23:40 UTC 2004 |
Charcat please mail me again if you want me to send you a test mail because
after I removed grex and cyberspace from my white list, procmail sent your
mail to /dev/null. I have to figure out where I am overdoing the spam filter
(and why it let through 0ffer on the subject line). I just sent you a mail
- did you get it? (6:35 pm Friday).
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kentn
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response 105 of 870:
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Jan 1 00:27 UTC 2005 |
In terms of the homme cf fix, it's still giving me a bad item number
error in bbs and only the first 19 items shown when browsing (though one
can read others beyond 19 by directly referring to them). ft has the
same issue, it just doesn't say anything about a bad item number.
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keesan
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response 106 of 870:
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Jan 1 05:04 UTC 2005 |
ebay no longer works with lynx. I cannot sign in. Links won't sign in either
- tells me 'no route to host'. With w3m I get a screen telling me to enable
cookies or use the latest IE or Netscape. Can w3m actually handle cookies?
Did something change at the grex end? Ebay actually looks a bit different.
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keesan
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response 107 of 870:
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Jan 1 05:08 UTC 2005 |
w3m -cookie www.ebay.com got me signed in. Is lynx set to reject cookies by
default? And links?
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keesan
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response 108 of 870:
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Jan 1 05:13 UTC 2005 |
Links got me 'your browser is rejecting cookies'. Lynx got me nowhere during
signin until I did lynx -cookies www.ebay.com and tried to sign in. I got
the signin page andthen 'your browser is rejecting cookies'. Has there been
some change to the lynx defaults? I would like to set it to accept cookies
from ebay and to ask me about cookies from other places, or at least to ask
me about cookies like it used to so I can decide at individual sites. Fine
with me if it throws out all cookies when I exit lynx.
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keesan
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response 109 of 870:
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Jan 1 05:20 UTC 2005 |
Links was not set up with a mail program. I type ESC for the menu, S for
setup, went down to Mail and telnet, and filled in on the first line Pine %
and now g, mailto:keesan@grex.org takes me to the Pine compose screen
with that address filled on on the To: line. I think beginners would
appreciate having Pine or at least some mail program set up for them. I also
added the option of numbering links under HTML options, and something about
moving within columns.
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jvmv
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response 110 of 870:
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Jan 1 06:29 UTC 2005 |
What's happening on GrexGallery? I'm not getting to upload a
pic into the GrexGallery but that doesn't work :(
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rcurl
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response 111 of 870:
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Jan 1 07:54 UTC 2005 |
There was a large increase in the rate of porno spam this evening. Not
an intrinsic Grex problem, of course, but a problem still.
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steve
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response 112 of 870:
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Jan 1 08:59 UTC 2005 |
FTP should be working for inbound connections now. I think I fixed
it at least for the moment. More work will have to go into that.
Grex crashed tonight because of a resource starvation issue. Obviously
its serious or the system wouldn't have crashed but it can be fixed.
It's one of the "kern" entries kern.maxfiles I think. I dead tired
at the moment but I
will be tweaking this tomorrow if someone else doesn't beat me to it.
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scott
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response 113 of 870:
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Jan 1 10:37 UTC 2005 |
Any chance of fronttalk/backtalk support for European characters? I
tried entering the three extra Norwegian vowels in both fronttalk and
backtalk, and neither was able to put them into a response. Even
reading in a text file got me "stripping bad characters".
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scott
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response 114 of 870:
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Jan 1 10:38 UTC 2005 |
(Staff is welcome to grab the file ~scott/char-test for the Norwegian
characters)
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remmers
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response 115 of 870:
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Jan 1 14:57 UTC 2005 |
Okay, if in Picospan I turn off 'gate' via the command "set noed_always"
then start a response, then use ':r char-test' to read your file into
the response, the characters are successfully entered, thusly:
Test of characters: æ ø å
Whether they display correctly on a users' terminal depends on their
local terminal settings. I was able to get them to display on mine
(Mac OS X 'terminal') by setting the character encoding to ISO Latin 9.
When I tried to read the file with 'gate' enabled, it stripped out the
characters. Maybe gate has a config option to disable this behavior?
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remmers
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response 116 of 870:
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Jan 1 15:26 UTC 2005 |
I did an RTFM on the gate man page and found that ':r -s FILE'
disables the "unprintable-character"-stripping behavior.
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keesan
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response 117 of 870:
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Jan 1 15:43 UTC 2005 |
I checked out lynx at sdf.lonestar.org and it works at eBay - asks you whether
to accept every cookie, like lynx at grex used to do. Could someone please
change lynx.cfg or whatever it is that sets cookie behavior at the new grex?
Same for w3m and links - make sure they either accept all cookies (and
probably delete at exit) or ask about them.
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remmers
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response 118 of 870:
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Jan 1 15:44 UTC 2005 |
Re the 'bad item header' problem in the homme conference: I looked
through the item files and found that item 22 was corrupt (most of
it appeared to be missing, in particular the standard header). So
I renamed the file from _22 to BAD_22 and regenerated the summary
file for the conference. The error message seems to have gone away.
Maybe an intact item 22 is still available on oldgrex and can be
restored from there. I'm not sure how to get to oldgrex at the
moment, so I can't check.
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remmers
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response 119 of 870:
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Jan 1 15:58 UTC 2005 |
Got to oldgrex and looked; the copy of homme item 22 is corrupt
there too. Prospects for restoration look dim...
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keesan
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response 120 of 870:
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Jan 1 16:07 UTC 2005 |
When I ssh'ed to check Jim's mail I was told: Error saving configuration ...
Disk quota exceeded. Jim has 15 mails in his account, totalling under 100K
(not counting headers). I have 750K of mail with no such message.
I do not seem to be getting 'new mail' notifications.
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remmers
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response 121 of 870:
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Jan 1 16:40 UTC 2005 |
I think the message was referring to the total disk usage in his account,
not his mail.
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scott
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response 122 of 870:
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Jan 1 18:13 UTC 2005 |
Thanks for the international stuff, John. I'll wrassle around with gate.
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albaugh
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response 123 of 870:
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Jan 1 18:13 UTC 2005 |
Last line missing from newresponse bbs items is "back".
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albaugh
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response 124 of 870:
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Jan 1 18:18 UTC 2005 |
I am pretty certain that is the nextgrex version of "more" that is the
culprit. I can live with the silly "byte xxx" paging prompt, but it is
somehow gobbling up the last line of every page it presents me.
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scott
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response 125 of 870:
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Jan 1 18:45 UTC 2005 |
The problem with gate and international characters would seem to be the
"isascii" system function, but looking around further it appears that the
international characters (a couple dozen of them) should be acceptable.
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kentn
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response 126 of 870:
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Jan 1 19:07 UTC 2005 |
Re 118 (bad item header in homme cf): it's working as expected now, thanks!
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