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Grex > Helpers > #138: Grex System Problems - Winter 2004/2005 |  |
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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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jvmv
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response 163 of 870:
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Jan 2 16:07 UTC 2005 |
The same thing to me in party:
/var: write failed, file system is full
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krokus
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response 164 of 870:
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Jan 2 16:33 UTC 2005 |
Not sure if someone posted this already, but I got this when in elm
and using vi as my mail editor:
Error: /var/tmp/vi.recover: No space left on device.
Modifications not recoverable if the session fails.
Looks like it's all related.
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keesan
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response 165 of 870:
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Jan 2 16:49 UTC 2005 |
I am still not getting any 'new mail' messages when I log in, though I have
new mail. Could someone please fix this, and also do something so users will
be notified they are over quota when they log in, rather than when they use
pine. Thanks.
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aruba
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response 166 of 870:
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Jan 2 17:06 UTC 2005 |
I haven't received any new mail at all today - I suspect the fact that /var
is full is preventing mail from being delivered.
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cross
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response 167 of 870:
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Jan 2 17:20 UTC 2005 |
This response has been erased.
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jvmv
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response 168 of 870:
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Jan 2 17:25 UTC 2005 |
Hey Mark A. Conger, I've sent you an email regarding my
subscription. I'm waiting for your answer!
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keesan
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response 169 of 870:
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Jan 2 18:26 UTC 2005 |
I am now getting new mail messages. But I think I figured out why I have to
put all my friends on the white list. Any mail not caught by one of my
filters or the white list is going to /dev/null. At the end of .procmailrc
I have the lines :0: and $MAIL - should I change these to send whatever is
not caught by a filter to my mail instead of to /dev/null? The reason spams
are getting through is they match something in the white list (for instance
'Michelle' got caught by the whitelist for 'mich' (as in umich.edu).
I turned verbose on to determine this.
Could I add between my last two lines a blank Subject line? (I forget the
exact format, just put in what usually goes in a Subject filter but end in
*, or . ).
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keesan
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response 170 of 870:
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Jan 2 19:05 UTC 2005 |
I have fixed my filter by putting a \ in front of the pipe sign in
v[pipesign]agra. For some reason I was getting a whole lot of spam caught
by that one filter. Anyone able to explain what caused the problem which I
just fixed? I narrowed it down by putting myself on the white list in the
middle of my filter , then before the Subject lines (it worked), then in the
middle of hte Subject filters (it worked) then near the end (it did not work,
I was after the viagra portion). I just apologized to at least five people
who sent me new year's greetings and now I can tell them it should not happen
again!
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keesan
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response 171 of 870:
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Jan 2 19:37 UTC 2005 |
The reason lynx is not working for me with cookies is that I have my own
lynx.cfg file which says to include the grex file in /usr/local/etc/lynx.cfg
which does not exist, in fact I cannot find any lynx.cfg at all besides mine.
Where is lynx.cfg? Is there a lynx.cfg? I notice that lynx is set to accept
all cookies rather than to ask about them. Does it store them somewhere or
delete on exit? If I run lynx without using my own lynx.cfg I can sign in
to ebay.
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keesan
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response 172 of 870:
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Jan 2 19:43 UTC 2005 |
When I do use my own lynx.cfg (lynx -cfg=~lynx.cfg invokes it) in order to
get rid of images which otherwise show up as [spacer.gif] etc., and to use
links and w3m as downloaders (see my lynx.cfg), lynx options still show it
accepting all cookies but for some mysterious reason I cannot sign in to ebay.
Anyone want to figure out why this is so? I remarked out the INCLUDE line
since I don't know where to point it at.
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tpryan
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response 173 of 870:
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Jan 2 20:34 UTC 2005 |
Help no change, no help 4 days later.
Okay, 4 days ago I tried the
Staff@cyberspace.org method, just as the June 21, 1999 web page says to.
tpryan@cyberspace.org here
I can't respond. Something about disk quota.
I can't tab. Same settings in terminal emulator
My iseps & rseps stoped working (putting headers in color).
Do I need a higher disk quota? why?
Have you tested by coming in via dial-up?
-Tim Ryan
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kentn
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response 174 of 870:
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Jan 2 21:27 UTC 2005 |
Tim, for me, the solution to the rsep/isep no color problem was to tell
the pager to pass raw characters on through (e.g. less -R). Edit your
.cfonce file for that (define pager). This worked for both bbs and ft
for me.
Re 171: try the 'locate' command when you can't find a file like
lynx.cfg and see if you don't get something at the system level (in
addition to other instances in people's home areas, and in source code--
which you might want to ignore or not depending on what you are looking
for).
I've tried 'ft' a couple times, but both times it ends up stalling my
connection (or maybe it's a coincidence). I'll be reading cfs just fine
and then no keystrokes are recognized over the course of several minutes
(except ^Z after which I can kill ft). It appears to be when you finish
reading one cf and hit return at the prompt to move on. bbs works just
fine for me without going south in the middle of a session.
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gelinas
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response 175 of 870:
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Jan 2 21:43 UTC 2005 |
Tim, use the commmmand "quota -v" to see how much disk you are using. Then
you can determine for yourself whether your quota needs to be raised. Send
a message to staff if you do need more disk space.
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davel
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response 176 of 870:
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Jan 2 21:45 UTC 2005 |
Re 157: The 100% in a file system (as reported by df) is based on a smaller
figure; there's a margin which only root may allocate, in effect. This may
allow root to temporarily create files while cleaning up (say).
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davel
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response 177 of 870:
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Jan 2 21:48 UTC 2005 |
Re somewhere way back there (albaugh, I think):
You can change that "byte xxxx" prompt. Read the man page for more (or less;
it's the same man page).
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drew
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response 178 of 870:
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Jan 2 22:07 UTC 2005 |
Re #149:
Done. No effect.
Re #160:
No, I am not using Windoze in VMWare to get at Putty. I am using it in
order to connect through Netzero and still have the system running Linux, and
also limit the exposure of the system to the virtual machine.
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drew
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response 179 of 870:
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Jan 2 22:09 UTC 2005 |
Also, MAILER-DAEMON keeps sending me messages telling me not to delete
them. What's going on here?
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keesan
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response 180 of 870:
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Jan 2 22:34 UTC 2005 |
I changed my lynx.cfg to INCLUDE /etc/lynx.cfg (after doing a locate
and discovering lots of lynx.cfgs in various places including a few other
people's home directories) and now ebay lets me sign in.
THANKS! Where does lynx save cookies to, or does it delete on exit?
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gelinas
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response 181 of 870:
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Jan 2 22:45 UTC 2005 |
Re 173: No, we didn't test coming in over dial-up. We knew it was a
limitation of the testing and decided that we had to live with it.
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lowclass
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response 182 of 870:
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Jan 3 01:23 UTC 2005 |
I'm getting messages that I have mail, and using !pine from the bbs prompt
takes me to pine. At that point, pine tells me I have no mail. Any idea what's
causing it?
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