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Grex > Agora > #4: Grex System Problems - Fall 2015/Winter 2016 | |
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nharmon
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response 54 of 223:
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Mar 12 17:16 UTC 2017 |
I recommend nobody transmit any protected health information or processes any
payment cards via Grex. You've been warned.
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kentn
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response 55 of 223:
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Mar 13 03:21 UTC 2017 |
For improving in any such area, it takes time and effort to do so. And
if staff don't have time (which is quite often in the past few years),
then it won't likely happen. The last time we updated the OS, a number
of home-grown applications had to change significantly and it was a lot
of work for staff to get things working again. Updating the OS would
go a long way toward fixing any TLS issues, I'd expect, but that won't
happen without a lot of staff effort.
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telnetuserid
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response 56 of 223:
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Mar 13 18:33 UTC 2017 |
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telnetuserid
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response 57 of 223:
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Mar 13 18:53 UTC 2017 |
For this to happen, a planned downtime and maintenance
need to be performed.
Just gather the staffs and discuss everything.
Getting in touch with devio.us maintainer is also a
good thing to do, since they've successfully updated
their system to 5.8 without any major issue.
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tod
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response 58 of 223:
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Mar 13 23:54 UTC 2017 |
We'll conduct a change management review with the change advisory board
in the cone of silence tunnel below our facility over by the COTS
area. Those of you who have not been on the calls for this are free
to dialin on our closed circuit line by the entrance.
No cell phones or biomed bracelets are permitted.
Bring a dixie cup of hand sanitizer.
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papa
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response 59 of 223:
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Mar 14 10:51 UTC 2017 |
Does not sound pretty.
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tonster
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response 60 of 223:
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Mar 14 13:14 UTC 2017 |
downtime isn't the issue, it's for the staff to have the time to plan
and execute the upgrade. I've created VM's for the new system, but we
haven't had a lot of time to go beyond that stage. At some point
hopefully that'll change, but right now we're just trying to keep the
last remaining light on.
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tod
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response 61 of 223:
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Apr 7 17:40 UTC 2017 |
*sound of poopy trombones*
grex% slrn -f /a/t/o/tod/.jnewsrc --create
slrn 0.9.9p1
Loading /usr/local/share/slrn/slang/slrn.sl
Using newsrc file /a/t/o/tod/.jnewsrc for server news.provide.net.
Connecting to host news.provide.net ...
Failed to resolve news.provide.net
Run-Time Error
slrn fatal error:
Failed to initialize server.
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kentn
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response 62 of 223:
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Apr 8 00:03 UTC 2017 |
I think I had to get a free news account outside of grex to
get it to work. I don't think we can access provide.net for
news any more.
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mijk
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response 63 of 223:
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Apr 8 21:51 UTC 2017 |
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kentn
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response 64 of 223:
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Apr 9 02:31 UTC 2017 |
See: http://dotsrc.org/usenet/ as one way to get usenet news.
You need to register but I don't think costs anything.
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cross
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response 65 of 223:
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Apr 10 14:54 UTC 2017 |
Eternal September is popular with the kids these dats.
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mijk
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response 66 of 223:
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Apr 10 21:14 UTC 2017 |
I was just about to say the same, accept i probably am one of the kids. :)
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kentn
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response 67 of 223:
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Apr 10 23:36 UTC 2017 |
It takes some time to set things up, and of course, we need to
(according to some) start over with just a few of standard starter
items. So, we could see how it would work...Spring/Summer. We
don't really have a cfadmin any more, who would normally do this.
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tod
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response 68 of 223:
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Apr 11 03:39 UTC 2017 |
re #62
Once upon a time I could rely on UM ITD but they removed me like Napoleon
Bonaparte
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ryan
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response 69 of 223:
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Apr 28 14:13 UTC 2017 |
Just a FYI -
When logging in, the default tset command in my .profile was choking on what it
was finding my terminal to be: "screen.xterm-256color".
Fixed it by export TERM="vt100" in my .profile.
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tod
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response 70 of 223:
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Apr 28 23:46 UTC 2017 |
vt102 is better!
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kentn
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response 71 of 223:
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May 13 22:36 UTC 2017 |
Looks like we upgraded to OpenBSD v6.1. I see the webserver is not
running so we can't use the RT help desk, nor is our imap daemon
(dovecot). bbs is operating somewhat differently (fixseen doesn't fix
things completely, and there were tons of new responses that were not
new. Also the scrolling is showing an entire screen for one response
i.e. lots of white space). Am assuming this is all in process now and
will be fixed as we go along. Knowing how much trouble our last upgrade
to OpenBSD caused, I hope we can get past this one in good shape without
a lot of hassle. Thanks so much for this effort to upgrade grex!
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cross
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response 72 of 223:
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May 14 02:56 UTC 2017 |
For the weird blank lines thing, add the `-c` option to your pager
command line, if you are using `less`.
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cross
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response 73 of 223:
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May 14 02:56 UTC 2017 |
Oh and PS: we are definitely hitting some bugs in backtalk.
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kentn
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response 74 of 223:
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May 14 04:04 UTC 2017 |
Thanks!
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kentn
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response 75 of 223:
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May 14 21:16 UTC 2017 |
Yes -c fixed the issue. In fronttalk you can change your pager
using the DEFINE command. DEFINE PAGER will show what you currently
have for a pager. HELP DEFINE will show how to use DEFINE.
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papa
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response 76 of 223:
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May 14 23:53 UTC 2017 |
The party 5-minute-idle-boot is an annoying "feature" that the upgrade seems
to have awakened.
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kentn
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response 77 of 223:
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May 15 02:28 UTC 2017 |
Will we install dovecot or something similar for IMAP e-mail access?
We had it running previously.
I'm still not sure how the help desk is going to work if we don't have
RT working on the new system. While there are ways around this, we need
to let people know, and those of us doing validations and other help
tasks need some way to see the requests come in and answer them.
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cross
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response 78 of 223:
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May 15 12:19 UTC 2017 |
resp:76 What five minute idle timeout?
resp:77 Dovecot is installed and running.
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