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Grex > Helpers > #142: Grex System Problems - Summer 2005 | |
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jadecat
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response 140 of 281:
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Jul 30 03:45 UTC 2005 |
I don't know if this is a Backtalk problem or a Firefox problem...
however two strange things are ocurring.
The <next conf> button works to go through a few conferences, but then
it will just hang- or give me the first part of the conf screen but not
the section with the buttons.
Secondly, when reading items if I try to <view responses X-y> section,,
it seems to send me back a random number and the selection I requested.
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albaugh
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response 141 of 281:
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Jul 30 05:09 UTC 2005 |
I was wrong - it was running /usr/X11R6/bin/resize at the shell prompt that
allows bbs & paged reading to work. My home telnet somehow causes my
interaction with nextgrex to be at 25 lines.
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albaugh
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response 142 of 281:
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Jul 30 05:10 UTC 2005 |
BTW, every time I scribble a response at the "Respond or pass?" prompt, bbs
croaks with "Memory fault". However, the sribble succeeds.
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krokus
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response 143 of 281:
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Jul 31 15:43 UTC 2005 |
Oh boy... Looks like I'm the sytem problem this time.
While having the mail program set as my pager, I did something that
generated 87 pieces of mail to one of my accounts. My appologies in
advance if this gets us flagged as a spammer.
(As a quick explination: I use PuTTY, and accidently right-clicked after
copying a large block of text. For those that don't know, that tells
putty to paste.)
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drew
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response 144 of 281:
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Jul 31 20:28 UTC 2005 |
I thought Shift-Enter was required to paste?
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twenex
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response 145 of 281:
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Jul 31 22:05 UTC 2005 |
Nope.
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mcnally
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response 146 of 281:
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Aug 1 16:39 UTC 2005 |
Depends what settings you've chosen. If you choose xterm-style
cut-and-paste it works as krokus describes.
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keesan
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response 147 of 281:
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Aug 1 17:49 UTC 2005 |
0512 is not working, 0513 is.
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gelinas
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response 148 of 281:
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Aug 2 03:35 UTC 2005 |
I didn't get over that way today. Maybe tomorrow.
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keesan
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response 149 of 281:
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Aug 2 14:02 UTC 2005 |
Who has the 28.8K bank of modems?
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gelinas
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response 150 of 281:
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Aug 3 02:36 UTC 2005 |
Most of the old modems didn't work reliably. I think they were recycled.
Or just trashed. I kept one or two.
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keesan
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response 151 of 281:
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Aug 4 01:54 UTC 2005 |
Dan G bought a bunch of 28.8K modems at Property Disposition. Bill L would
like to get them going. He is experienced with modems and grex is his only
net connection so he has lots of incentive. Do you know who has them?
They came without the required software or instructions.
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scott
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response 152 of 281:
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Aug 4 02:06 UTC 2005 |
dang probably still has those modems. I recall that there was a rather
interesting problem - they had some kind of nonstandard firmware, and he
couldn't find documentation or figure it out.
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keesan
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response 153 of 281:
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Aug 4 02:16 UTC 2005 |
That is what Bill hopes to figure out. He has a setup for testing phones and
modems offline, and a reason for spending time on this. I will write dang.
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davel
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response 154 of 281:
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Aug 4 14:50 UTC 2005 |
Connecting with ssh, my first try got a message "server refused to allocate
pty". Tried again & got in.
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mynxcat
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response 155 of 281:
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Aug 4 15:33 UTC 2005 |
Through telnet, my first try gave me all ports are busy. Worked on the second
try.
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mcnally
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response 156 of 281:
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Aug 4 16:07 UTC 2005 |
It appears the idle zapper has died again.. I'll restart it.
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keesan
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response 157 of 281:
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Aug 4 16:55 UTC 2005 |
I connected with dang, who will deliver the modem bank to me or Bill soon.
Thanks, Scott.
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keesan
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response 158 of 281:
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Aug 4 18:20 UTC 2005 |
SOmeone please kill the triludaa account, which is using up a lot of cpu time.
A couple minutes ago load average was 4.5, now it is 5.5.
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mcnally
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response 159 of 281:
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Aug 4 18:24 UTC 2005 |
> Someone please kill the triludaa account, which is using up a lot of cpu
Using a lot of CPU is not (by itself) justification for killing an account.
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keesan
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response 160 of 281:
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Aug 4 20:52 UTC 2005 |
When 25% of all cpu time is being used by users, and 23.5% of this is one
user, is this justification? It looks like vandalism to me.
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mcnally
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response 161 of 281:
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Aug 4 21:07 UTC 2005 |
You haven't given close to enough information to make that decision.
The user could have been running a compiler. Or a program that performs
repeated numerical calculations. Or any number of other things..
OR they could have been vandalizing the system.. Without more information
than you have given, however, there's no reason to conclude that the last
of those options MUST have been their motivation.
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keesan
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response 162 of 281:
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Aug 4 21:39 UTC 2005 |
This particular user has vandalized the system before. It was running bash,
and shortly before this 'user www' was tying up just as much cpu time.
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keesan
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response 163 of 281:
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Aug 4 21:48 UTC 2005 |
Load average just under 6, Triludaa still running bash, about 28% of cpu time.
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kentn
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response 164 of 281:
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Aug 5 02:29 UTC 2005 |
Probably sending out the e-mails I've been getting the last couple days from
multiple users on grex, including triludaa. Looks like they are using
the passwd file for information. "Hello <user full name>,<location> take
care".
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