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Grex > Helpers > #149: Grex System Problems - Spring 2006 | |
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mcnally
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response 245 of 333:
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May 28 23:37 UTC 2006 |
Actually, what Rane is reporting is that his csh startup scripts
sourced files (global.cshrc, global.login) that used to live in
/usr/local/lib, apparently.
So there was a line in his (or rather MNAC's) startup files that
read:
source /usr/local/lib/global.cshrc
Since those files now, for some reason, live in /usr/local/etc
the startup script would cause an error when he logged in and
it was this that was apparently affecting his ability to sftp.
Changing the line to:
source /usr/local/etc/global.cshrc
fixed the problem (as would simply commenting out that line..)
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rcurl
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response 246 of 333:
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May 29 00:07 UTC 2006 |
I would have said that..... 8^}
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gull
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response 247 of 333:
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May 31 18:15 UTC 2006 |
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gull
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response 248 of 333:
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May 31 18:16 UTC 2006 |
Re resp:194: In the past, vandals like this have eventually gotten
bored and left, or sometimes even started to participate intelligently
in discussions. I don't think extreme measures like disabling newuser
are called for, yet. Furthermore, the more attention you lavish on
these jerks the longer it will take for them to get bored with their
stunt.
Re resp:238: Re the mail problem...It's complaining because you're
saying HELO before you get the connection banner. That's not
RFC-compliant behavior, so Exim hangs up on the connection. (Hosts are
explicitly allowed to delay the banner as a slowdown technique, for
example if they're under high CPU load.) I suspect the connect ACL is
delaying sending the banner for sites that match spam blacklists,
because this is a pretty useful technique against spambots, and I think
I suggested it once. Every once in a while you may find a broken host
you have to whitelist, though. I have no idea if this is still
effective against spam, or if the people who write spambot software
have caught on; it's been a few months since I was administering a
serious mail server of my own.
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naftee
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response 249 of 333:
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Jun 1 04:15 UTC 2006 |
damnit !
who the hell filled up /c ?!
this used to be the EMPTY partition ! i want the old /c back ! :(
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nharmon
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response 250 of 333:
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Jun 1 10:35 UTC 2006 |
You should've been on /a
Sorry!
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keesan
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response 251 of 333:
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Jun 1 16:13 UTC 2006 |
Please date messages in the motd, including those about email having been
fixed.
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cross
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response 252 of 333:
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Jun 1 16:39 UTC 2006 |
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rcurl
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response 253 of 333:
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Jun 1 16:49 UTC 2006 |
Was it not adopted because of policy, or just neglect?
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cross
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response 254 of 333:
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Jun 1 22:44 UTC 2006 |
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rcurl
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response 255 of 333:
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Jun 2 01:43 UTC 2006 |
That sounds like the handwriting is on the wall, when those in charge are
practicing neglect.
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ball
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response 256 of 333:
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Jun 2 02:40 UTC 2006 |
"Email on Grex has been broken long enough for the
situation to be considered permanent."
http://grex.cyberspace.org/~ball/
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scholar
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response 257 of 333:
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Jun 3 08:47 UTC 2006 |
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keesan
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response 258 of 333:
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Jun 6 15:07 UTC 2006 |
Could someone please update the motd as regards email problems of last week?
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tsty
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response 259 of 333:
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Jun 6 22:37 UTC 2006 |
now _this_ really hurts:
& n
Message 64:
From xxxx@yyyyy.com Sat Jun 03 22:48:00 2006
Envelope-to: tsty@cyberspace.org
Delivery-date: Sat, 03 Jun 2006 22:48:00 -0400
Reply-To: <xxxxx@yyyyy.com>
From: "another AACS officer" <xxx@yyy.com>
To: "'TS Taylor'" <tsty@cyberspace.org>
Subject: RE: Web site
Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2006 21:46:07 -0400
MIME-Version: 1.0
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TS - you have a problem with your email server. It keeps complaining about
too many concurrent SMTP connections. Do you have an account at a more
reliable email host?
_____
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tod
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response 260 of 333:
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Jun 6 22:44 UTC 2006 |
jalopy.org
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gull
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response 261 of 333:
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Jun 7 06:38 UTC 2006 |
Perhaps staff should eliminate the connection delays. What worked well
on the medium-sized email server I used to administer may be
ill-advised for the volume of mail Grex handles.
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vivekm1234
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response 262 of 333:
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Jun 7 15:19 UTC 2006 |
Having some problem with my web interface to the BBS. Some articles don't show
up eg: in agora 184, 189, 177 178 and many more. Any idea why? AM i doing
something wrong? I use Firefox 1.5.0.4 on Win2K.
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vivekm1234
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response 263 of 333:
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Jun 7 15:23 UTC 2006 |
Err ignore #262 Solved..
I needed to check "All items"
Perhaps that could be made more obvious!
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tsty
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response 264 of 333:
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Jun 7 21:06 UTC 2006 |
... but that would remove the thrill of finding NewStuff (tm) every time
you login ... <g>!
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davel
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response 265 of 333:
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Jun 7 21:41 UTC 2006 |
Re 261 re 259:
I see this all the time - mail to cyberspace.org hangs in the queue for hours
to days, often generating warnings after 4 hours. If I connect to the SMTP
port, I see that "too many concurrent SMTP connections" message, & an
immediate disconnect. And I've also gotten complaints about mail to my
Grex address not getting through; & this is much more of a problem for
Grace, who has no other email address.
But is this really a problem with the delay? It seems to me that the delay
must be really, really, REALLY long if this is the case; when I see the
too-many-connections message the disconnect is *immediate*. What
is the maximum allowable number of SMTP connections (or processes)
set to? Can this be bumped up, if it realistically is much too low?
I realize that the limit is set to keep mail from completely busying out the
system. But that doesn't mean that the default limit (if that's what it
is) is reasonable for Grex. If the limit is inherited somehow from the
previous hardware, it's even less likely to be reasonable. (But that seems
a bit unlikely, given that we went from a hacked sendmail to something else
at that time.)
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mcnally
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response 266 of 333:
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Jun 8 00:37 UTC 2006 |
Grex's mail config sucks, but I'm afraid I don't know enough about exim
to fix it.
The maillog shows we're dropping connections on the floor pretty much
constantly, but I'm not sure how to fix that. I have a hypothesis that
it may be due to our policy of introducing a 30s delay for any host listed
in one of several RBLs, which I think causes a lot of tied up exim processes,
but my attempts to reduce that delay to 1s by tweaking the exim.conf file
have probably not been successful.
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keesan
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response 267 of 333:
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Jun 8 01:50 UTC 2006 |
Several people report that they can never send me mail, including from
mindspring/earthlink, which is impatient so it always times out.
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ball
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response 268 of 333:
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Jun 8 04:20 UTC 2006 |
Re #267: That's what prompted me to post what I did on my
Web site. It's pointless people trying to send me email
on Grex unless they happen to be another local user here.
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rcurl
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response 269 of 333:
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Jun 8 15:42 UTC 2006 |
I see what people mean about a problem with e-mail. I had sent a message here
a few days ago that arrived within minutes, but last night I sent one that
has still not arrived after nearly 12 hours.
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