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Grex > Helpers > #138: Grex System Problems - Winter 2004/2005 |  |
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charcat
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response 704 of 870:
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Feb 10 04:00 UTC 2005 |
resp #696 yes the old number was a local call. I don't know why I'm so
upset about this, I can use the internet to connect from my home
computer but I know 2 people who can't. How much extra would it cost
grex to keep an ann arbor phone or call forwarding?
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gelinas
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response 705 of 870:
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Feb 10 05:41 UTC 2005 |
I don't know, but I can probably find out how much it would cost to set up
permanent forwarding. I'll try to call SBC tomorrow.
One difference between ~krj/.login and ~arbella/.login is:
if ($?prompt) then
. . .
endif
I don't know that that is the problem, though.
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aruba
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response 706 of 870:
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Feb 10 14:40 UTC 2005 |
I was able to dial in last night, but not this morning. melanief called to
tell me she still can't connect.
Joe, I think some of the GVC modems were suspect, and we had the best of
them in service before the move. Are the two that are connected now from
the pool of modems that were in use before, or were they idle?
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keesan
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response 707 of 870:
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Feb 10 16:31 UTC 2005 |
I could not dial in this morning either.
Steve, are you using dialin service to your ISP or broadband? If broadband,
don't ISPs also let you dialin as well so you can connect when away from home?
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gregb
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response 708 of 870:
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Feb 10 17:49 UTC 2005 |
Can't speak for all, but Comcast and WOW do not.
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albaugh
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response 709 of 870:
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Feb 10 21:09 UTC 2005 |
> WARNING: Your mailbox is 87% full.
> If it reachs 100%, you will no longer be able to receive mail.
It is my experience on nextgrex that this is not true: Due to being sent
several large attachments at once and SPAM, I know I've well exceeded the
inbox limit (still 1MB?), and yet have been able to receive more mail.
That has proven to be very useful, as there was a time I couldn't run mail
to clear out stuff, due to the low /tmp quota, yet this didn't start
bouncing mail to senders.
OTOH, if the inbox limit isn't enforced, that could allow a big pile up of
junk sent to defunct accounts etc.
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keesan
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response 710 of 870:
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Feb 11 00:28 UTC 2005 |
I got 'network not supported' first time I tried to ssh here, then the second
time it worked. Is this something to do with where I am ssh'ing from?
Still cannot dial in.
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gelinas
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response 711 of 870:
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Feb 11 03:54 UTC 2005 |
The modems are from the active pool.
Last I looked, the mail quota was 5MB.
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i
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response 712 of 870:
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Feb 11 11:12 UTC 2005 |
Dial-in/modems/problems:
What i'm hearing definitely sounds like continuous, bad line noise. I've
no problems (& don't hear line noise) dialing other places. Dunno...i'd
say it must be in the trunk line (vs. "last mile") from what folks are
saying, but i'd also thought that noisy trunk lines were a thing of the
past.
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keesan
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response 713 of 870:
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Feb 11 17:07 UTC 2005 |
Could the noise be from using 25' phone cords? I still can't dial in either.
It has worked twice in the past few days.
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gregb
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response 714 of 870:
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Feb 11 17:19 UTC 2005 |
Possible, especially if the cord is bundled up.
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albaugh
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response 715 of 870:
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Feb 11 18:28 UTC 2005 |
> Last I looked, the mail quota was 5MB.
At the time I was given the "100% full" message yesterday, I'm pretty sure
I had nowhere near 5MB worth of mail in the inbox.
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gelinas
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response 716 of 870:
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Feb 12 03:04 UTC 2005 |
You probably know this, but
ls -l /var/mail/<loginid>
will show the size of <loginid>'s inbox.
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keesan
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response 717 of 870:
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Feb 12 03:12 UTC 2005 |
Jim offers to put together a regular phone cable that will plug into the phone
jack at one end and have two jacks for SHORT phone lines at the other end (or
perhaps the cable could plug directly into two modems? - how far apart are
they?). But first he has to recover from the flu as he cannot do this too
well while in bed.
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tsty
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response 718 of 870:
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Feb 12 20:59 UTC 2005 |
weird here ....
grex% w
3:52PM up 3 days, 9:40, 36 users, load averages: 1.08, 0.86, 0.84
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE WHAT
volt p0 tran.adsl.mustan 2:59PM 5 -tcsh
politie p1 gn-lwb-5c43.adsl 3:49PM 0 (pine)
cross p3 sl-aafes1-40-0.s 2:42PM 4 -tcsh
tsty p4 pcp03303701pcs.y 3:45PM 0 w
jvmv p5 200-203-131-127. 3:16PM 0 gate /c/j/v/jvmv/cf.buffer
smoke p7 ACD89C61.ipt.aol 3:51PM 1 -bash
jn p8 port1364.ds1-by. 3:48PM 1 -bash
gudri p9 - 3:30PM 0 /usr/local/bin/bbs
vallica pa 81.12.221.23 3:23PM 0 -bash
test19 pb pcp745288pcs.res 3:10PM 0 vi testing.txt
unix22 pc dup-200-65-13-13 3:36PM 8 vi copiar
cross pd sl-aafes1-40-0.s 3:46PM 0 screen -r
cross pe fubar.cshack.net Wed09AM 0 vi minunit.h
marcvh pf c-24-18-218-42.c 3:27PM 15 -bash
frank60 q0 130.182.168.175 2:45PM 0 -bash
aym q1 130.182.168.209 2:46PM 0 /bin/sh /usr/local/bin/help
radi q2 83.238.4.98 3:46PM 0 lynx
steve q4 pcp04149896pcs.s 12:01AM 0 -sh
q76 q5 user6.47.udn.pl 3:51PM 0 -bash
hackerpt ft bl6-11-28.dsl.te Fri05PM 0 -
hackerpt ft bl6-11-28.dsl.te Fri05PM 0 -
hackerpt ft bl6-11-28.dsl.te Fri05PM 0 -
hackerpt ft bl6-11-28.dsl.te Fri05PM 0 -
hackerpt ft bl6-11-28.dsl.te Fri05PM 0 -
hackerpt ft bl6-11-28.dsl.te Fri05PM 0 -
hackerpt ft bl6-11-28.dsl.te Fri05PM 0 -
hackerpt ft bl6-11-28.dsl.te Fri05PM 0 -
hackerpt ft bl6-11-28.dsl.te Fri05PM 0 -
hackerpt ft bl6-11-28.dsl.te Fri05PM 0 -
hackerpt ft bl6-11-28.dsl.te Fri05PM 0 -
hackerpt ft bl6-11-28.dsl.te Fri05PM 0 -
hackerpt ft bl6-11-28.dsl.te Fri05PM 0 -
hackerpt ft bl6-11-28.dsl.te Fri05PM 0 -
hackerpt ft bl6-11-28.dsl.te Fri05PM 0 -
hackerpt ft bl6-11-28.dsl.te Fri05PM 0 -
hackerpt ft bl6-11-28.dsl.te Fri05PM 0 -
grex%
plus ...............
grex% f -m hackerpt
Login: hackerpt Name: hackerpt
Directory: /a/h/a/hackerpt Shell: /bin/bash
On since Fri Feb 11 17:04 (EST) on ftp13449 (messages off)
from bl6-11-28.dsl.telepac.pt
On since Fri Feb 11 17:08 (EST) on ftp10539 (messages off)
from bl6-11-28.dsl.telepac.pt
On since Fri Feb 11 17:08 (EST) on ftp1084 (messages off)
from bl6-11-28.dsl.telepac.pt
On since Fri Feb 11 17:09 (EST) on ftp3456 (messages off)
from bl6-11-28.dsl.telepac.pt
On since Fri Feb 11 17:09 (EST) on ftp21571 (messages off)
from bl6-11-28.dsl.telepac.pt
On since Fri Feb 11 17:09 (EST) on ftp21872 (messages off)
from bl6-11-28.dsl.telepac.pt
On since Fri Feb 11 17:09 (EST) on ftp15683 (messages off)
from bl6-11-28.dsl.telepac.pt
On since Fri Feb 11 17:09 (EST) on ftp17847 (messages off)
from bl6-11-28.dsl.telepac.pt
On since Fri Feb 11 17:09 (EST) on ftp4871 (messages off)
from bl6-11-28.dsl.telepac.pt
On since Fri Feb 11 17:09 (EST) on ftp26602 (messages off)
from bl6-11-28.dsl.telepac.pt
On since Fri Feb 11 17:09 (EST) on ftp440 (messages off)
from bl6-11-28.dsl.telepac.pt
On since Fri Feb 11 17:09 (EST) on ftp24252 (messages off)
from bl6-11-28.dsl.telepac.pt
On since Fri Feb 11 17:09 (EST) on ftp25520 (messages off)
from bl6-11-28.dsl.telepac.pt
On since Fri Feb 11 17:09 (EST) on ftp19024 (messages off)
from bl6-11-28.dsl.telepac.pt
On since Fri Feb 11 17:09 (EST) on ftp14084 (messages off)
from bl6-11-28.dsl.telepac.pt
On since Fri Feb 11 17:09 (EST) on ftp19333 (messages off)
from bl6-11-28.dsl.telepac.pt
On since Fri Feb 11 17:14 (EST) on ftp16240 (messages off)
from bl6-11-28.dsl.telepac.pt
No Mail.
No Plan.
seems to be stuck somehow ...
portugal has arrivedd
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cross
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response 719 of 870:
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Feb 12 21:42 UTC 2005 |
This response has been erased.
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twenex
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response 720 of 870:
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Feb 13 03:13 UTC 2005 |
What a crock.
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cross
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response 721 of 870:
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Feb 13 03:33 UTC 2005 |
This response has been erased.
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gelinas
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response 722 of 870:
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Feb 13 04:13 UTC 2005 |
An update on the modems: I didn't get a chance to call SBC on Thursday or
Friday. I did find 140 feet of cat5 cable in my basement. I _couldn't_ find
my crimper, so I plan to buy a new one tomorrow, make a couple of cat5
telephone cords of appropriate length, and then get to Provide.Net to install
them. The last step may not happen until Monday, though.
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naftee
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response 723 of 870:
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Feb 13 07:38 UTC 2005 |
whip me up a batch of pancakes, cross.
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keesan
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response 724 of 870:
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Feb 13 14:59 UTC 2005 |
Jim has a crimper you can borrow, also some of the round grey cable normally
used to run phone lines, whatever it happens to be. I think his idea was to
make one line with something at the end to plug two phone cords into. Or if
the modems are fairly close, perhaps he can make something that plugs directly
into the modems (soldered instead of plugged, better contact).
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rcurl
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response 725 of 870:
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Feb 13 20:15 UTC 2005 |
Splitters, which can be added to the end of an ordinary phone cord, are "dirt
cheap". It isn't worth the time to make custom cords.
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gracel
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response 726 of 870:
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Feb 13 22:33 UTC 2005 |
It's telling me that my mailbox is 98% full, when I have just over
one megabyte of mail in it. Furthermore, for the last several days
it has refused to let me delete anything (if I was able to read it
at all) because I was over quota in /temp.
Yesterday and today, also getting the incredible line noise that won't
let me dial in.
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davel
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response 727 of 870:
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Feb 13 23:34 UTC 2005 |
(To add to #726, as one who watched and tried to help:
(1) On dialin, the modem connects, but it gets what appears to be continuous,
severe line noise, never a visible dialin prompt of any kind. As with
others who have reported this, the only difference on our end is the
number being dialed.
(2) Grace was able to use elm to read her mail, but when she exited, if she'd
made any changes (deleted any messages), it told her that her limit was
exceeded on /tmp. To add insult to injury, or maybe more injury, it left
the original copy of her mailbox in /tmp, blocking future attempts to even
run elm. That limit needs to be at least doubled, I'm afraid.
(3) Her problems with elm were greatly exacerbated by the amount of spam Grex
is letting in. The mailbox keeps getting bigger & bigger, but the limit
on /tmp won't let her delete any of it.
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keesan
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response 728 of 870:
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Feb 14 00:16 UTC 2005 |
Is it possible to hand-edit the mailbox? Or maybe to download it first and
then read it and delete it at grex? Please try my .forward and .procmailrc
as a filter - just the first 20 filters (and the first and last three lines
or so) of .procmailrc are needed and change keesan to davel or gracel.). My
long filter catches 95% of spam but the first 20 parts should do about 90%.
A quarter or so of my spam is sent to one of about ten other grex addresses
in a batch mailing, most of the rest has java or images or a few key words
like medication.
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