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Grex > Helpers > #138: Grex System Problems - Winter 2004/2005 |  |
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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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rcurl
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response 127 of 870:
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Jan 1 19:18 UTC 2005 |
The following e-mail message arrived just after the shift to newGrex. Yet
it is dated 24 October. What gives?
> Date: 24 Oct 2004 01:45:37 -0400
> From: Mail System Internal Data <MAILER-DAEMON@grex.cyberspace.org>
> Subject: DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL DATA
> This text is part of the internal format of your mail folder, and is not
> a real message. It is created automatically by the mail system
> software. If deleted, important folder data will be lost, and it will be
> re-created with the data reset to initial values.
Does it really have to be left in one's inbox?
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remmers
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response 128 of 870:
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Jan 1 19:27 UTC 2005 |
I don't know why it showed up, but I think it's safe to delete.
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scott
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response 129 of 870:
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Jan 1 20:32 UTC 2005 |
I get those when I've used the web email client for my regular (non-Grex)
email. It's basically a way to store various settings (new folders and other
stuff) that I might do within the web client. When I get home and download
my mail into my regular email client one of those "Folder internal data"
emails shows up, and I just delete it.
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rcurl
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response 130 of 870:
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Jan 1 20:36 UTC 2005 |
Could it have been created because I was reading my mail for the first
time with newPine?
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albaugh
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response 131 of 870:
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Jan 1 21:00 UTC 2005 |
I appears that the idle zapper is not working right in the following
situation:
Connected to grex via internet. Logged in via telnet.
Did "exec login" to another account. At a certain point the following was
displayed:
Sat Jan 1 13:58:09
This terminal has been idle 15 minutes. If it remains idle
for 5 more minutes it will be logged out by the system.
Logged out by the system.
But no disconnect was performed. The "Logged out" line was repeated every
so often. But my sh was still responding, and whoami showed that I was still
the second account.
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cross
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response 132 of 870:
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Jan 1 22:48 UTC 2005 |
This response has been erased.
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keesan
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response 133 of 870:
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Jan 2 01:12 UTC 2005 |
Why would Jim get the disk quota exceeded message only when he used pine, not
when he logged into his account?
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twenex
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response 134 of 870:
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Jan 2 01:15 UTC 2005 |
There are two different quotas for home directory space and mail.
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keesan
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response 135 of 870:
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Jan 2 01:26 UTC 2005 |
Yes, and he has about 100K of mail so why get a quota message when using pine?
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keesan
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response 136 of 870:
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Jan 2 01:32 UTC 2005 |
I just deleted 8MB of freedos image files from his home directory but that
does not explain why the quota message showed up when going into pine.
When will the new disk quotas be enforced? I don't know why Jim did not use
sdf to store these files, since he has 30MB space there (for $1).
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twenex
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response 137 of 870:
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Jan 2 01:37 UTC 2005 |
I don't know what the quota is for mail, but he must be over it.
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