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Grex > Helpers > #137: Grex System Announcements - Winter 2004/2005 |  |
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mcnally
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response 16 of 219:
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Dec 23 18:49 UTC 2004 |
re #14:
Mail that you haven't yet read or that you have preserved in your
incoming mail is stored in the spool directory. Grex has so many
users its mail spools are organized hierarchically, so the exact
location will depend on your login id, but an easy way for most people
to find out is to start up a shell and do "echo $MAIL"
Mine, for example, is:
grex% echo $MAIL
/var/spool/mail/m/c/mcnally
Yours should be /var/spool/mail/t/p/tpryan.
And if your name was xyZZZZ it would be in /var/spool/mail/x/y/xyZZZZ
Mail that you have already read can be stored in a variety of places.
The traditional Unix mail program stores it in ~/mbox Pine and several
other mail programs store mail in mbox-like files in ~/mail
If you use some other mail program it could be stored some place else..
Find where your mail program stores mail and back up both your incoming
unread mail and your saved messages by using ftp from another machine
to connect to Grex and retrieve the files.
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tod
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response 17 of 219:
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Dec 23 19:10 UTC 2004 |
Does pine validate S/MIME attachments on Grex?
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janc
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response 18 of 219:
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Dec 23 21:08 UTC 2004 |
I don't know anything about pine.
The best way to copy files off Grex for internet users is either 'ftp' or
'telnet'. Either way, you'll need a client program on your computer. I'm
afraid that I know nothing about Windows FTP clients. Generally, you will
be running the program on your computer. You will connect to "grex.org" or
"cyberspace.org" with you usual login and password. You should then be able
to select files to copy back to your computer.
If you are using a Mac running OS X, you have the unix ftp and scp commands
on your system. Find the "Terminal" application, and run it. It'll give you
a terminal window where you can type standard Unix commands in a standard unix
shell.
Unix-style ftp is run like
ftp grex.org
It'll ask you for your login and password, then give you a prompt. You
can do "ls" to list files in your Grex home directory, or "cd" to change
to a different directory on Grex. Doing "get filename" will copy a file
from Grex to your local system.
Unix-style scp is less interactive, but more secure. You do
scp janc@grex.org:filename localfilename
To copy a file named "filename" on Grex to a file named "localfilename" on
your sytem. It'll prompt you for a paasword. You should give your login
instead of "janc" of course.
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cross
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response 19 of 219:
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Dec 23 21:24 UTC 2004 |
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mcnally
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response 20 of 219:
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Dec 23 23:27 UTC 2004 |
re #17: I haven't checked, but probably not. The version of pine we
are running here is quite ancient.
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jor
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response 21 of 219:
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Dec 23 23:47 UTC 2004 |
(wow, no one uses MS-DOS telnet and ftp??)
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keesan
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response 22 of 219:
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Dec 24 03:27 UTC 2004 |
I use DOS telnet and ftp but usually I just dial in with DOS kermit and do
kermit file transfer on the same connection. kermit -is mail would send a
binary file mail to my computer.
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jvmv
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response 23 of 219:
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Dec 25 03:18 UTC 2004 |
I'd just like to take this opportunity to thank the staff &
express my sincere gratitude to Grex for its excellent
performance & for its excellent service. I wish you success!
Thank you very much. You do a wonderful job for us & I
thoroughly enjoyed remaining with you :-)
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naftee
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response 24 of 219:
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Dec 26 05:13 UTC 2004 |
I used to use SSHDOS back in the day.
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gregb
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response 25 of 219:
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Dec 26 05:35 UTC 2004 |
Re. 23: OK, who are you and what have you done with Vitor?
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cross
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response 26 of 219:
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Dec 29 03:29 UTC 2004 |
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cross
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response 27 of 219:
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Dec 29 03:30 UTC 2004 |
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gelinas
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response 28 of 219:
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Dec 29 03:38 UTC 2004 |
It's only the truth.
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gelinas
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response 29 of 219:
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Dec 29 03:38 UTC 2004 |
It's only the truth.
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gelinas
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response 30 of 219:
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Dec 29 03:40 UTC 2004 |
Hmm... ft told me "response not entered." I wonder why that is?
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janc
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response 31 of 219:
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Dec 29 03:44 UTC 2004 |
Yeah, well, now it's time to brace ourselves for all the bugs...
Oops, Joe slipped in with one already.
There seems to be something about 'mesg' not being able find ttys.
The quota on /tmp is too low for some users to be able to read their
huge mailboxes.
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richard
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response 32 of 219:
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Dec 29 03:49 UTC 2004 |
I can't telnet in, it says 'user not authenticated' and rejects my
password
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charcat
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response 33 of 219:
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Dec 29 03:55 UTC 2004 |
Yea! Grex is back up. (charcat does the snoopy happydance) Way to go
Janc Joe and all others!
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jep
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response 34 of 219:
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Dec 29 03:58 UTC 2004 |
Dang, Backtalk is fast on this computer! I like it. Many thanks to
Jan and Joe and all else who made it happen!
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scott
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response 35 of 219:
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Dec 29 07:19 UTC 2004 |
Aside from a little personal config glitch it seems fine to me.
Congratulations, staff!
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aruba
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response 36 of 219:
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Dec 29 07:44 UTC 2004 |
Yea! Yea! Thank you so much Jan and Joe, for making this happen.
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mary
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response 37 of 219:
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Dec 29 12:40 UTC 2004 |
Wow, Backtalk is much, much faster now. Very nice.
Thank, Jan, for giving so much time to Grex.
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nharmon
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response 38 of 219:
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Dec 29 13:34 UTC 2004 |
Thank you for your hard work! Some of us were beginning to become cynical
mnetters. :)
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janc
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response 39 of 219:
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Dec 29 14:05 UTC 2004 |
We worked hard to get backtalk to perform acceptably on old slow
machines. The effect of all that optimization now that we are on a fast
machine is kind of impressive. One of the reasons I wanted a faster
machine, actually.
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keesan
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response 40 of 219:
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Dec 29 15:42 UTC 2004 |
Picospan is also nearly instant and I had no trouble dialing in or sending
mail with pine.
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