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Grex > Helpers > #138: Grex System Problems - Winter 2004/2005 |  |
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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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albaugh
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response 196 of 870:
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Jan 3 15:51 UTC 2005 |
My files have returned just as mysteriously as they disappeared, and my mail
has been restored too. :-)
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albaugh
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response 197 of 870:
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Jan 3 15:56 UTC 2005 |
Under old grex, vi (as it does under Solaris, HP-UX, etc.) when started up
showed the number of lines in the file being edited. Under nextgrex, vi
instead shows the following:
<filename>: unmodified: line 1
Is there some way to get vi to show the number of lines upon startup?
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albaugh
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response 198 of 870:
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Jan 3 15:58 UTC 2005 |
BTW, for me, at the moment, telnetting in to nextgrex from the internet,
response is DOG SLOW.
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jep
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response 199 of 870:
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Jan 3 17:05 UTC 2005 |
Backtalk got a lot faster in the last hour or so. Yay!
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albaugh
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response 200 of 870:
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Jan 3 17:37 UTC 2005 |
Just now when I tried to connect via the internet, I was shown:
telnetd: All network ports in use.
Is that a case of staff turning off connections for to do maintenance,
or do we have a need for the telnet queue after all? (this is being
entered via backtalk)
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dpc
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response 201 of 870:
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Jan 3 18:14 UTC 2005 |
I got the same "telnetd" message that Kevin did for serveral tries
at dialing in. Then finally I was able to dial in. I have *never*
gotten this message bfefore. I hope the dialin users won't have
to wait in the telnet queue.
Also - the ^H backspace problem and the "byte abcd" problem are still
with us.
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albaugh
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response 202 of 870:
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Jan 3 19:44 UTC 2005 |
The "all ports in use" situation remains, 2 hours later...
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gull
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response 203 of 870:
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Jan 3 19:57 UTC 2005 |
Re resp:127,resp:179: Pine uses those "internal data" messages to store
various information, I think. I don't know what happens if you delete one.
Re resp:157: In BSD, filesystems have an area that's reserved for only
the root user. The percentage full takes into account only the
user-accessable part of the filesystem. So if the filesystem is filled
by a user, then root (or a process owned by root) puts some stuff on it,
it will be over 100%.
Re resp:201: The 'Byte abcd' problem isn't really a "problem", it's just
a different prompt. more is telling you how many bytes into the file
you are, instead of giving an information-free 'More' prompt.
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gelinas
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response 204 of 870:
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Jan 4 06:24 UTC 2005 |
Re #197: I've been using vi since 1992, admittedly mostly on SunOS (both 4.x
and 5.x); I've noticed a line-count at the beginning of an editting session.
The command :number (or :nu) will precede each line with its number.
Re 201: The option "-d" will give you the default "more" prompt. You may
want to set this in your .cshrc (if you use csh), with the command
setenv MORE -d
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