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russ
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response 167 of 215:
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May 26 02:20 UTC 2002 |
nslookup has stopped working again.
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bdh3
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response 168 of 215:
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May 26 07:40 UTC 2002 |
Works for me.
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keesan
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response 169 of 215:
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May 26 15:43 UTC 2002 |
A few minutes ago I was terminated after hitting Enter after reading an item,
and getting an error message including the number 12, out of memory and the
word forking. Was this a fork bomb?
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glenda
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response 170 of 215:
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May 27 01:21 UTC 2002 |
No, it was not a fork bomb. The error was: Error 12 out of memory trying
to fork. Forking is a program trying to spawn another process as a normal
function of the program. When several such things happen at once you can have
a momentary halt because there isn't enough ram to handle all of them.
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keesan
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response 171 of 215:
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May 27 02:13 UTC 2002 |
So what program was doing this?
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bdh3
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response 172 of 215:
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May 27 05:14 UTC 2002 |
Yours.
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keesan
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response 173 of 215:
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May 27 13:49 UTC 2002 |
Why did it do that yesterday when I pressed the enter key but this hads never
happened before or since - was something else using up the memory?
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glenda
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response 174 of 215:
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May 27 14:53 UTC 2002 |
Everyone else that was logged on and all the accounting/auditing programs.
I got the same message around the same time as you did. I went upstairs to
wake STeve up and by the time I came back downstairs everything was ok, so
I told him to go back to sleep.
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janc
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response 175 of 215:
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May 28 23:10 UTC 2002 |
Actually, it could have been a fork bomb or something similar.
Something was running Grex out of resources so that it couldn't do
ordinary forks. Grex's defenses against fork bombs will generally
terminate them pretty quickly, but there may be a brief period in which
you'll see problems like this before the system sets itself right
again. Grex has two layers of fork bomb defenses - the kernel blocks
will kill the more aggressive fork bombs pretty quickly - probably
within ten seconds. Robocop responds more slowly, possibly taking as
long as 8 minutes, but kills more categories of annoying programs,
including memory bombs.
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gelinas
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response 176 of 215:
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May 29 04:28 UTC 2002 |
Do we know why the network goes away every now and again? traceroutes tend
to end at rback0.flnt.mi.voyager.net.
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tpryan
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response 177 of 215:
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May 29 22:45 UTC 2002 |
Any news on when I can get my ~tpryan/mbox restored to the
last back-up, 1/27/2002?
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krj
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response 178 of 215:
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May 30 20:00 UTC 2002 |
Grex has been yo-yoing on and off the net. You can sort of see the
interrupts if you look at the party log.
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neevor
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response 179 of 215:
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Jun 3 05:42 UTC 2002 |
grex isn't updated enough.
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jaklumen
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response 180 of 215:
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Jun 3 08:18 UTC 2002 |
Grex doesn't have money enough.
It's a non-profit organization and is essentially run by volunteers.
That isn't really conducive to bleeding-edge technology.
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jmsaul
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response 181 of 215:
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Jun 9 04:04 UTC 2002 |
This may have been reported already, but if you do a finger, you'll see four
sessions reporting idle time in days.
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jp2
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response 182 of 215:
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Jun 9 17:53 UTC 2002 |
This response has been erased.
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other
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response 183 of 215:
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Jun 9 21:05 UTC 2002 |
I built my own control window which provides some additional
functionality and ease-of-use to backtalk. I know it's easier to
complain, but if you really try, you might be able to figure out
something similar.
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jp2
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response 184 of 215:
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Jun 9 21:07 UTC 2002 |
This response has been erased.
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oval
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response 185 of 215:
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Jun 10 08:13 UTC 2002 |
whereis nano
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gelinas
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response 186 of 215:
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Jun 10 13:05 UTC 2002 |
What is "nano"?
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twinkie
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response 187 of 215:
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Jun 10 14:00 UTC 2002 |
Nanoo Nanoo!
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oval
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response 188 of 215:
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Jun 10 14:24 UTC 2002 |
GNU clone of pico. http://www.nano-editor.org/
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jp2
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response 189 of 215:
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Jun 13 04:08 UTC 2002 |
This response has been erased.
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twinkie
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response 190 of 215:
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Jun 13 05:44 UTC 2002 |
Strange...chfn worked fine for me.
Respond, pass, forget, quit, or ? for more options? !chfn
Use <return> to keep, or "none" to delete.
Name [Kevin Nicholls]?
Location [none]?
Work Phone [none]?
Home Phone [none]?
Finger information unchanged.
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jp2
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response 191 of 215:
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Jun 13 16:30 UTC 2002 |
This response has been erased.
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