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Grex > Helpers > #142: Grex System Problems - Summer 2005 | |
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jadecat
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response 172 of 281:
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Aug 5 15:29 UTC 2005 |
I was just saying that I got the mail- nothing else intended.
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mcnally
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response 173 of 281:
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Aug 5 16:10 UTC 2005 |
I was logged on during much of the period that Sindi was complaining
about (as shown by my responses interleaved with her complaints) and
found the system responsiveness to be pretty normal during that time.
I did have a talk with triludaa about the CPU usage. He said he was
running a program he'd written and was unaware that it was taking up
so much CPU time. When I made him aware of the issue he killed the
program and agreed that he should redesign it. Only future behavior
can truly demonstrate whether he was sincere or not but I believed
that he was not intentionally harming the system (it's easy enough to
do that, frankly, if that's really your intention) and I don't think
it's wise to automatically assume malice from a user just because they
don't fit into the usual pattern of picospan/party/email use.
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keesan
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response 174 of 281:
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Aug 5 17:49 UTC 2005 |
When I was trying to compile something at grex I would be careful to run the
compiler when few other people were online, such as Sunday mornings or the
middle of the night.
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remmers
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response 175 of 281:
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Aug 5 18:22 UTC 2005 |
On the Sun that Grex used to run on, that was helpful. Now that we're
on much more modern and higher-performance hardware, compilations have
much less impact on other users.
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cross
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response 176 of 281:
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Aug 5 21:05 UTC 2005 |
This response has been erased.
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naftee
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response 177 of 281:
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Aug 6 01:53 UTC 2005 |
re 170 Is that similar to the Ratio Test ?
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nharmon
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response 178 of 281:
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Aug 6 20:25 UTC 2005 |
Seems to be a problem with the password file being locked. Nobody can change
their password.
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jason
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response 179 of 281:
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Aug 8 11:24 UTC 2005 |
Today I was bombarded with telegrams from triludaa with text spanning three
to four pages.He has written some program to take input from flat files and
telegram user in a loop.He later sent me about 40 spam emails with no from
address or subject using grex smtp.He is really a pain in the ass.
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naftee
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response 180 of 281:
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Aug 8 14:18 UTC 2005 |
He didn't need to write a programme.
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keesan
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response 181 of 281:
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Aug 8 15:16 UTC 2005 |
Perhaps we could harness his unused energy by asking him to write some useful
program for grex instead?
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albaugh
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response 182 of 281:
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Aug 8 18:00 UTC 2005 |
Hanlon's Razor - Don't attribute to malice something that can be explained by
incompetence.
http://home.kc.rr.com/psychology140/ct-razors.htm
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mynxcat
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response 183 of 281:
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Aug 10 20:39 UTC 2005 |
It seems every afternoon grex freezes up and crashes. And then we can't get
back on the system for anywhere from a couple of minutes to 15 minutes. Is
there some kind of maintenace going on at that time? Is this supposed to be
normal. Today the crash was around 4:30 pm.
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tod
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response 184 of 281:
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Aug 10 20:51 UTC 2005 |
1:30pm PST
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gelinas
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response 185 of 281:
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Aug 12 01:30 UTC 2005 |
Thu Aug 11 21:28:01 EDT 2005: Grex was hosed, for lack of a better word.
I called provide.net, who power-cycled the machine. We are back now.
(I'm guessing fsck got hung on an unwatched reboot.)
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naftee
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response 186 of 281:
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Aug 12 02:04 UTC 2005 |
THANKS, joe
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nharmon
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response 187 of 281:
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Aug 12 02:22 UTC 2005 |
Thanks Joe.
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aruba
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response 188 of 281:
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Aug 12 05:39 UTC 2005 |
Thanks Joe!
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marcvh
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response 189 of 281:
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Aug 12 05:55 UTC 2005 |
Good to see it back. I'm able to telnet in, but ssh isn't connecting.
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rcurl
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response 190 of 281:
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Aug 12 06:15 UTC 2005 |
It is for me.
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marcvh
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response 191 of 281:
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Aug 12 06:35 UTC 2005 |
Hmmm. Works for me now too. Go figure.
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twenex
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response 192 of 281:
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Aug 12 11:53 UTC 2005 |
Thankya, gelinas.
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scholar
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response 193 of 281:
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Aug 12 13:46 UTC 2005 |
romantic is using write to flood my screen.
someone should please do something about this.
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gelinas
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response 194 of 281:
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Aug 12 15:31 UTC 2005 |
I swapped out the (probably) bad modem on 484-0512. Let us know, here, how
the (relatively) new one works.
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cmcgee
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response 195 of 281:
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Aug 12 15:42 UTC 2005 |
How do I create a new accout with "newuser" when I ssh into Grex?
I've tried to do this a couple times in the past month, and all I get is
newuser@grex.org's password:
When I type "newuser" as the password I get
Access denied
and it asks for the password again.
Can people only create new accounts from the web?
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sholmes
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response 196 of 281:
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Aug 12 15:51 UTC 2005 |
Can create new accounts through telnet.
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