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Grex > Helpers > #138: Grex System Problems - Winter 2004/2005 |  |
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drew
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response 138 of 870:
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Jan 2 02:07 UTC 2005 |
Re #103:
I am doing the following when the problem occurs:
* Trying to read my mail with pine. Abruptly exits, don't remember the
message.
* Entering a response in BBS. The editor starts up, but immediately dumps
upon my typing the first character of the response.
New information: The problem seems to occur if, and only if, I'm dialed
in direct. I'm entering this response, without problems, via the Net, and Pine
worked normally as well. Just a second ago I tried direct dialing; Pine did
not work and I didn't bother to try using BBS.
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twenex
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response 139 of 870:
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Jan 2 02:12 UTC 2005 |
I have a problem while using backtalk. The program refuses to recognize that
not all the items in a conference are new, even when i click on "mark all
responses read".
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twenex
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response 140 of 870:
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Jan 2 02:14 UTC 2005 |
Hmm; is your terminal setting ('echo $TERM') the same dialling direct as when
connecting over the net?
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drew
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response 141 of 870:
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Jan 2 03:12 UTC 2005 |
Assuming you mean me: TERM is vt100 on
the net. I'm not at home at the moment to
dial in; will check that when I'm there.
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gelinas
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response 142 of 870:
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Jan 2 03:58 UTC 2005 |
When a user goes over quota, they have seven days to get back under the quota.
If they don't, quota prevents their creating new files. Several people are
over quota right now. They are (mostly) in the grace period. Some people
are already contacted staff for help. Others, like Jim through you, find
other ways of dealing with the problem.
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keesan
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response 143 of 870:
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Jan 2 04:22 UTC 2005 |
But why does the 'over quota' message appear when you go into pine and not
when you log in? This is confusing, not helpful.
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cross
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response 144 of 870:
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Jan 2 04:25 UTC 2005 |
This response has been erased.
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keesan
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response 145 of 870:
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Jan 2 04:31 UTC 2005 |
Jim had 9MB of files in his home directory and nothing in /tmp and 100K in
the inbox. I can try to duplicate the problem by downloading a 2MB file to
his home directory if that helps. I went in and out of pine several times
and kept getting that over quota message every time. Or maybe he also had
the 9MB in /tmp? Does it stay there for a week?
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gelinas
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response 146 of 870:
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Jan 2 04:39 UTC 2005 |
Pine was trying to write to a file in his home directory. That attempt
triggered the quota notification.
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drew
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response 147 of 870:
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Jan 2 04:53 UTC 2005 |
When dialing direct:
Pine exits with "Cannot open terminal capabilities database".
TERM is set to "dialup". Changing it to "vt100" does *NOT* fix the
problem.
When trying to enter a response in BBS, spacebar enters a new line, and
typing any other character results in a "Core dumped" followed by "OK to enter
this response?".
When connected via the internet:
TERM is set to "vt100".
Pine and BBS work normally.
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drew
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response 148 of 870:
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Jan 2 04:55 UTC 2005 |
Scratch that, TERM is now set to "xterm", logged in from home in Putty under
Windoze 98SE in VMWare. It was "vt100" in ssh on the Zaurus.
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gelinas
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response 149 of 870:
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Jan 2 04:57 UTC 2005 |
Try editting your .login to remove the '"$TERM"' from the end of the tset
command.
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albaugh
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response 150 of 870:
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Jan 2 05:08 UTC 2005 |
What is the user quota on /tmp ? Can it be raised? I'm being thwarted in
sending e-mail with long text (a few 100K characters).
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gelinas
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response 151 of 870:
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Jan 2 05:11 UTC 2005 |
The quota on /tmp is 200 KB. The limit is 1100 KB.
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cross
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response 152 of 870:
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Jan 2 05:11 UTC 2005 |
This response has been erased.
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cross
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response 153 of 870:
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Jan 2 05:12 UTC 2005 |
This response has been erased.
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gelinas
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response 154 of 870:
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Jan 2 05:13 UTC 2005 |
BTW, the command to see _your_ quota is "quota". Personally, I prefer the
"-v" option:
quota -v
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bru
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response 155 of 870:
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Jan 2 11:00 UTC 2005 |
var system is full
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bru
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response 156 of 870:
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Jan 2 11:30 UTC 2005 |
/var: write failed, file system is full
cannot log into party.
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nharmon
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response 157 of 870:
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Jan 2 12:56 UTC 2005 |
> df
/dev/sd2d 6092380 6039150 -251388 104% /var
heh, how can a file system be 104% full? ;)
Anyway, what bru said, /var is full.
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nharmon
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response 158 of 870:
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Jan 2 13:09 UTC 2005 |
It appears to be email spools that are filling up /var.
> du -h /var |more
999M /var/mail
942M /var/tmp/mail-spool
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void
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response 159 of 870:
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Jan 2 14:04 UTC 2005 |
Thanks to everyone who got the new machine up and running! Very nice.
What became of /usr/local/lib/global.cshrc? Upon logging in, I see a
message that there is no such file, and my usual shell prompt and some
other things don't work. What should I be using instead?
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twenex
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response 160 of 870:
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Jan 2 14:10 UTC 2005 |
As a side note, drew, if you're using Windoze under VMWare so you can get at
PuTTY whilst using Linux/UNIX, PuTTY is now available for Linux, whilst the
BSDs have compatibility packages for Linux software.
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gelinas
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response 161 of 870:
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Jan 2 14:11 UTC 2005 |
The global dot files are in /usr/local/etc/ . However, you may need to add
your own prompt. I added
set prompt="`hostname -s`% "
to my .cshrc file.
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void
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response 162 of 870:
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Jan 2 14:13 UTC 2005 |
Thanks, gelinas. :)
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