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Grex > Helpers > #138: Grex System Problems - Winter 2004/2005 |  |
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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 And lynx is still a few years out of date and it still redraws itself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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gelinas
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response 205 of 870:
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Jan 4 10:57 UTC 2005 |
So I was wrong: vi on on the old machine did give the file name, number of
lines and number of characters. On OpenBSD and linux (2.4.26, I don't know
which distribution), it doesn't.
I note that the man page here, as well as on the Linux machine I now use, is
for the "nex/nvi" versions. According to the man page, "Nex/nvi are
intended as bug-for-bug compatible replacements for the original Fourth
Berkeley Software Distribution (4BSD) ex and vi programs."
The man pages for vi and nvi do not hint at how to change the initial
information. For what's worth, <CTRL>G still reports the current line number
and the total number of lines in the file.
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gelinas
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response 206 of 870:
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Jan 4 10:58 UTC 2005 |
(I now see that I omitted a negative in the first sentence of 204. Ah well.)
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dpc
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response 207 of 870:
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Jan 4 14:20 UTC 2005 |
What about the ^H that I get on my screen instead of the backspace?
With OldGrex, I was told upon login that abackspace was ^H, but
it never appered on my screen.
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