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25 new of 870 responses total.
twenex
response 225 of 870: Mark Unseen   Jan 5 18:50 UTC 2005

This is more like a little niggle than a problem, but why won't colour work
in programs like "most" when I have my terminal set to xterm (I don't know
of any other terminal settings where it might work)?
twenex
response 226 of 870: Mark Unseen   Jan 5 18:53 UTC 2005

I've also tried "vt100", "vt102", "vt220", and "vt420" to no avail.
mcnally
response 227 of 870: Mark Unseen   Jan 5 20:14 UTC 2005

 Have you tried "ansi"?
mcnally
response 228 of 870: Mark Unseen   Jan 5 20:18 UTC 2005

 re #225:  does color work in anything?  what happens if you
 use echo in the shell to echo the escape sequence to change
 text color?  any effect?  your pager program might be eating
 the color sequences if it works in the shell but not in bbs.

rcurl
response 229 of 870: Mark Unseen   Jan 5 20:34 UTC 2005

When I log in I get the screen

------------------------------------------------------------------
Last login: Wed Jan  5 14:32:51 2005 from
pcp09229896pcs.sanarb01.mi.comcast.net
OpenBSD 3.5 (GREX) #2: Sun Dec 19 15:10:32 EST 2004

To see statements of grex principles and limits, look at

  http://cyberspace.org/cgi-bin/grex-principles -Grex Statement of
  Principles http://cyberspace.org/cgi-bin/grex-limits     -Grex Limits

You have new mail.
/usr/local/lib/global.login: No such file or directory.
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No motd, no list of users. Is this a permanent change, or a problem?
cross
response 230 of 870: Mark Unseen   Jan 5 20:37 UTC 2005

This response has been erased.

rcurl
response 231 of 870: Mark Unseen   Jan 5 20:45 UTC 2005

Thanks. That did it. Now I get the message

mesg: Unable to find your tty (ttyq5) in utmp file

Is that good or bad or indifferent? 
gelinas
response 232 of 870: Mark Unseen   Jan 5 20:49 UTC 2005

It means that the settings allowing (or disallowing) tels won't be available.

We may need to recompile mesg.
keesan
response 233 of 870: Mark Unseen   Jan 5 20:53 UTC 2005

Is this related to the problem of talk not working?  Tels work for me.
gelinas
response 234 of 870: Mark Unseen   Jan 5 20:54 UTC 2005

I don't know; I've not tried talk.
gelinas
response 235 of 870: Mark Unseen   Jan 5 21:00 UTC 2005

No, the problem is that talk is not suid.  I don't have time to work on
this right now.
keesan
response 236 of 870: Mark Unseen   Jan 5 21:00 UTC 2005

I get the same error message trying to talk to people whether or not they are
logged in - try a talk keesan (I am logged in) or a talk jdeigert.  Something
about sockets.  Presumably a file in the wrong place or some limit set wrong.
keesan
response 237 of 870: Mark Unseen   Jan 5 21:01 UTC 2005

235 slipped in.   Does 'not suid' mean permissions for talk need to be
changed?   I will tell people to email me until talk works again.
other
response 238 of 870: Mark Unseen   Jan 5 21:15 UTC 2005

Sort of.  The program permissions determine who can run it, but what
needs changing is what permissions the program can use to run the other
processes it needs (like those that allow non-members to use talk to
connect to a non-Grex-local machine).
twenex
response 239 of 870: Mark Unseen   Jan 5 21:26 UTC 2005

I'm not sure if colors will be at all useful in bbs; but most uses them. w3m
does, too, but I don't know if we have that installed. I'll check that, and
setting the terminal to ansi, now.
mfp
response 240 of 870: Mark Unseen   Jan 5 21:28 UTC 2005

http://www.jewsforjoosuz.org/
twenex
response 241 of 870: Mark Unseen   Jan 5 21:38 UTC 2005

Setting the terminal to ansi worked a treat; thanks!
mfp
response 242 of 870: Mark Unseen   Jan 5 21:40 UTC 2005

http://www.jewsforjesus.org/
aruba
response 243 of 870: Mark Unseen   Jan 5 21:50 UTC 2005

I make heavy use of colors in my Picospan iseps and rseps.
twenex
response 244 of 870: Mark Unseen   Jan 5 21:53 UTC 2005

Hmm, I wonder what they are.
mfp
response 245 of 870: Mark Unseen   Jan 5 22:15 UTC 2005

http://www.jewsforjesus.org/
aruba
response 246 of 870: Mark Unseen   Jan 5 22:55 UTC 2005

You can see them in ~aruba/.cfonce if you'd like.  My twitfilter also
highlights responses from cetain people by putting them in a different
color.
gelinas
response 247 of 870: Mark Unseen   Jan 5 23:11 UTC 2005

You change that every time someone whens the letter game, Mark?  cool.  :)
twenex
response 248 of 870: Mark Unseen   Jan 5 23:17 UTC 2005

Thanks, mark.
aruba
response 249 of 870: Mark Unseen   Jan 6 00:54 UTC 2005

Re #247: I confess I often fall behind.  But yes, I have a command to
define a command to print out the letter.match# file of the person who is
"it" in each of the games.
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