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Grex > Helpers > #138: Grex System Problems - Winter 2004/2005 |  |
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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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bru
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response 183 of 870:
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Jan 3 03:17 UTC 2005 |
system is very slow.
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naftee
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response 184 of 870:
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Jan 3 03:29 UTC 2005 |
guys!
I,m just getting my mail right now!
mail that I should have recieved a long time ago!
whoa!
oldGreX must've been screwy!
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keesan
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response 185 of 870:
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Jan 3 04:05 UTC 2005 |
I just got two test messages from charcat from mich.com (charcat are you
reading this) but I cannot reply to him or even mail to myself. When I try:
Mail not sent. Sending error 451 Error while writing spool file.
What's up now? It worked a couple of hours ago. Is this my account or a
general problem?
Earlier I got stuck at ebay, slowed to a crawl. I think it was the net
connection as I could quit lynx instantly, just took forever to go to the next
link. And lynx is still a few years out of date and it still redraws itself
3-5 times each time you go to a new URL.
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keesan
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response 186 of 870:
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Jan 3 04:12 UTC 2005 |
Net connection appears to be broken. I waited 30 sec trying to ssh out and
gave up. Our hardware or the ISP? Probably explains the spool file error.
But I did get four incoming mails since the slowdown with lynx a couple of
hours ago so it appears to be glacially slow rather than dead.
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albaugh
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response 187 of 870:
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Jan 3 04:19 UTC 2005 |
A couple of minutes ago I couldn't connect via the internet. This is being
entered via a dial-up session.
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albaugh
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response 188 of 870:
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Jan 3 04:24 UTC 2005 |
/var is still full. I can't even vi one of my small text files - no space
left on device. :-(
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gelinas
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response 189 of 870:
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Jan 3 04:57 UTC 2005 |
You can edit your file, you just can't save recovery information.
I power-cycled the modem some time between 22:30 and 23:00 this evening.
I left it off for several minutes, while I tried to deal with the full /var
partition.
I realise now that the state of /var contributed to the network problem: mail
was being rejected almost as fast as it was being received because the
messages couldn't be written to disk.
I have turned off incoming mail for the duration.
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keesan
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response 190 of 870:
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Jan 3 06:09 UTC 2005 |
The message I get when I log on says Sunday is Jan 2 and also Jan 3.
Thanks for the rescue, Joe.
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gelinas
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response 191 of 870:
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Jan 3 06:15 UTC 2005 |
Thanks for the note; I've corrected the dates in motd. :)
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keesan
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response 192 of 870:
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Jan 3 06:19 UTC 2005 |
I was able to ssh just now out of grex, but it is quite slow. Is this related
to the full /var?
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gelinas
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response 193 of 870:
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Jan 3 06:24 UTC 2005 |
Probably: mail was rejected because it couldn't be written to disk. Now it
is coming in.
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jep
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response 194 of 870:
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Jan 3 13:51 UTC 2005 |
Backtalk is running at OldGrex speeds.
The page which used to be the choice for bookmarking, now allows a user
to log in but then gives a 404 "The page cannot be found" message:
http://www.grex.org/cgi-bin/pw/bt/pistachio/begin
The solution is to bookmark this page:
http://www.grex.org/cgi-bin/pw/backtalk/pistachio/begin
This might be confusing some users.
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kalbaugh
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response 195 of 870:
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Jan 3 15:25 UTC 2005 |
What happened to all my files?!!!
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