response 187 of 223:

Apr 15 12:45 UTC 2019

Looks like my script is now working again. It renewed automatically
about a month ago. 

Grex has been recently unavailable due to another bad modem. I had a
power outage about 2 weeks ago, which I believe likely contributed
to/caused this. Wednesday I called in to schedule a service tech and
they attempted to update the firmware to resolve it. It worked for an
hour or so after that, at which point the modem bricked. It came back
online Friday evening but for some reason nginx wouldn't serve pages (or
some other OS issue was blocking requests). I rebooted this morning and
things seem fine now.

response 189 of 223:

Oct 7 01:25 UTC 2019

Okay, so Grex was out of commission for several days last week.  I'm told
it was due to a power outage, which I can believe given all the storms
and outages we've had in SE Michigan this year.  Thanks to Tony for getting
it all back up and running again!

response 191 of 223:

Oct 10 02:14 UTC 2019

One thing that is not currently working is our RT help desk web
application.  At least when I try to access it, it never loads the page
and times out.  So, something isn't quite right there yet.  It seems
the other parts of RT are working, such as assigning ticket numbers.

Thus, while I still get help desk e-mails and can act on them (such as
do password resets and validations), I can't respond except through a
personal account. I'd rather not do that.

response 193 of 223:

Feb 22 01:38 UTC 2020

Okay, you probably noticed that grex was not found for a few weeks.
This is something going on with some hardware and Tony finally had the
time to look into it.  Thanks, Tony!

Not sure what we could've done.  Hardware sometimes causes issues, and
like most of us, the time to look into might be enough to getting done
it up immediately. We have been lucky that Tony has been able to give
Grex a home for years.  So please thank Tony for looking into it!

Welcome back, Grex!

(I had 87 emails when I logged in, so it must have been doing something
part of the time, we just couldn't access it).

response 195 of 223:

Feb 28 22:00 UTC 2020

The grex hardware was virtualized several years back when it failed the
last time, so it now runs on a VMware server with many other machines I
use for work. So it's really not a financial burden on me, as I'd have
the hardware either way. Having it virtualized, though, does present
somewhat of a challenge as hosting it elsewhere would involve some
complexities. We've discussed a bit about finding a hosted solution, but
bsd (any dirivitive, but openbsd I've never seen) is a very uncommon
supported virtualization OS.

response 197 of 223:

Mar 1 05:04 UTC 2020

resp:195 Thanks for explaining Grex's current configuration, Tony.

response 199 of 223:

Mar 2 18:20 UTC 2020

re #198
It's all the same, imo.  I am nostalgic about yum, tho

response 201 of 223:

Mar 10 22:29 UTC 2020

Why does alpine 2.21 give an error "can't open folder /var/mail/lar :
no such folder BUT alpine 2.21 opens my mail fine when accessed from the menu
shell?

response 203 of 223:

Mar 11 13:31 UTC 2020

mutt vs alpine
discuss

response 205 of 223:

Mar 12 11:14 UTC 2020

re#202
Hi cross,
What is the syntax for that? I was running the C shell (tcsh) and tried 
using the "setenv" command. I have switched shells over to what you are 
using now (bash) How would I do it in that?

response 207 of 223:

Mar 12 20:30 UTC 2020

re #204
Agreed about mutt

response 209 of 223:

Mar 13 03:01 UTC 2020

I like alpine and use in almost everywhere. The menus aren't a distraction,
I operate efficiently via muscle memory. IMO it's easier to navigate through
my many folders dedicated to various email lists, and setting up new filters
is easy using the setup menu. I've used mutt in the past, it's ok, and I like
the vim-like key bindings. MM on TOPS-20 is nice too.