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Grex > Helpers > #138: Grex System Problems - Winter 2004/2005 |  |
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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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jor
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response 729 of 870:
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Feb 14 01:06 UTC 2005 |
yahoo email is free.
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keesan
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response 730 of 870:
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Feb 14 15:33 UTC 2005 |
I get lots of spam with header 'To:': benny, amit, ebsy, eh, kleptic, krex,
makji and hal9000, none of whom exist at grex. Could someone set up a
systemwide procmail filter on these? (I also get spam addressed to at least
6 currently active grexers). Putting Subject:...prescripiton and
Subject:...taladafil and X-Message-Info, img.src, and java would catch at
least half of the rest of the spam. Does anyone WANT to get emails with these
at grex? In my case at least nobody but spammers writes me about medications
or meds, but maybe some people discuss those with their friends, along with
cumshots and mortgage refinancing.
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other
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response 731 of 870:
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Feb 14 17:51 UTC 2005 |
Any about cumshot refinancing?
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gelinas
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response 732 of 870:
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Feb 14 20:55 UTC 2005 |
Just a heads-up: I'm not going to get to Provide.Net today. :(
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gelinas
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response 733 of 870:
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Feb 15 23:03 UTC 2005 |
I got there today.
My Cat5 cable contained two eight-conductor cables: one blue and one yellow.
I put an RJ-11 connector at each end of each of them (leaving four wires
unused in each cable) and put that in place of the separate telephone cords
we had been using. So that part of the problem should be fixed.
I also plugged a telepone directly into the test jacks: one (0512) was dead,
and the other (0513) was so noisy that the telephone wouldn't dial through.
I called SBC from another line in the facility to report the problem. They
promised by repair by tomorrow evening. That should take care of the second
part of the problem.
Since only one line was working, 0513, and only tty00 has been used, I changed
the order of the modems so that 0512 would be on tty00 and 0513 would be on
tty01. Now we wait for the lines to be fixed to see if I fixed that part of
the problem, as well.
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keesan
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response 734 of 870:
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Feb 15 23:31 UTC 2005 |
Thanks a lot Joe. I hope SBC will also refund us the charges for the period
when the lines were not usable. I look forward to dialing in again.
Maybe then I will be able to print out my email again? When I try (with %
or with Y after enabling that), the file just scrolls across the screen but
does not print to 'attache-to-ansi' - or maybe I simply don't know how to
print in linux, though I did insmod three modules - parport, parport_pc and
lp - do I also need lpr? Normally I just dial in with DOS and kermit.
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gull
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response 735 of 870:
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Feb 15 23:45 UTC 2005 |
My experience with SBC is that you should expect it to take several
tries to get a reliable line. Hopefully they'll do a better job for you,
though.
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edina
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response 736 of 870:
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Feb 16 00:07 UTC 2005 |
Ok, once again when I logged on, it showed all the items in the winter agora
as being brand new. What's up with that?
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dpc
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response 737 of 870:
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Feb 16 00:09 UTC 2005 |
I've been out of town, and unable to telnet in, for several days.
Just now, when I logged in, I was told (quite understandably) that
my mailbox was full, and that I would not be able to receive any
more mail until I removed some of it.
So - wait for it - I tried to read my mail and was told that /tmp
was full, and my quota was exceeded!
There is no way I can read any mail.
Would someone with a clue *puh-leez* increase the disk quotas for
mail so that I (and others) can read it? Thanx!
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aruba
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response 738 of 870:
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Feb 16 06:05 UTC 2005 |
Thanks Joe, for dealing with the modems.
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naftee
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response 739 of 870:
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Feb 16 06:19 UTC 2005 |
Thanks Mark!
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eprom
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response 740 of 870:
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Feb 16 17:37 UTC 2005 |
Grex won't let me save changes to the HTML version of a conf login.html file
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albaugh
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response 741 of 870:
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Feb 16 18:04 UTC 2005 |
dpc is suffering the same thing I went through, until my /tmp quota was
increased. Is this how it's going to be - one by one, affected users have
to ask for help to solve something they could have solved for themselves?
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tod
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response 742 of 870:
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Feb 16 18:06 UTC 2005 |
Do you have spam filters?
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keesan
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response 743 of 870:
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Feb 16 18:33 UTC 2005 |
A short spam filter that catches about 75% of my spam -
delete lines starting in #, which I put in for information only.
.forward (in home directory):
|/usr/local/bin/procmail
.procmailrc (in home directory):
MAIL=/var/mail/yourlogin ##change this!!!
LOGFILE=$HOME/mail/from
VERBOSE=on
##The above sets your mail directory and produces a logfile
##with a list of what mail went where and why -- ~/mail/from
##which you can read with pine, L, as 'from'. You can see if
##the filter caught a real mail and why, then either put the
##mailer on your white list or remove the filter that caught it.
## This first filter forwards mails over 100K to my other address.
:0:
* >100000
! keesan@myotheraddress.org
#The next two are 'white list', mail to be let through:
#Change from carole to the names of people who write you
#if your filter catches their mail.
:0:
* ^From:.*carole
$MAIL
#Change to subjects that you want to be sure not to accidentally filter
:0:
* ^Subject:.*ebay
$MAIL
#This filter lets through mail from people using pine.
:0:
* ^References:.*pine
$MAIL
#The following is a sample of how to filter on mails with word
# 'filter' in message body and send them to mail folder filter.
# Useful if you want to save mail from a list.
:0B:
* ^*filter
${HOME}/mail/filter
#The rest of this throws out (to /dev/null) spam.
#All mail with java in it is spam.
:0:
* ^Content-type:.*java
/dev/null
#I don't know what this is, but it is always spam.
:0:
* ^X-Message-Info:
/dev/null
#All mail with embedded images is spam.
:0B:
* ^.*img.src
/dev/null
#All mail sent to these characters is spam, unless you are carson.
:0:
* ^To:.*benny
/dev/null
:0:
* ^To:.*carson
/dev/null
:0:
* ^From:.*carson
/dev/null
:0:
* ^To:.*cme
/dev/null
:0:
* ^To:.*gmike
/dev/null
:0:
* ^To:.*hal9000
/dev/null
:0:
* ^To:.*krex
/dev/null
:0:
* ^To:.*makji
/dev/null
:0:
* ^To:.*pez
/dev/null
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* ^Cc:.*true
/dev/null
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* ^Subject:.*medication
/dev/null
#perscription, prescripiton
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* ^Subject:.*p..scrip..on
/dev/null
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* ^Subject:.*\|
/dev/null
## The following lines (0B) filter on message bodies only:
##The first will catch cialis, c!ial1s, etc.
:0B:
* ^.*c.al.s
/dev/null
:0B:
* ^.*deals
/dev/null
:0B:
* ^.*medication
/dev/null
:0B:
* ^.*meds
/dev/null
#the . is any character, the ? means character before it is optional
# so this catches mortgage, mor.tg.agge etc.
:0B:
* ^*mor.?tg.?agg?e
/dev/null
:0B:
* ^.*pills
/dev/null
:0B:
* ^.*\%.rate
/dev/null
:0B:
* ^.*refinance
/dev/null
:0B:
* ^.*rx
/dev/null
:0B:
* ^.*s0ft
/dev/null
#leave the next line so real mail will arrive safely
:0:
$MAIL
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albaugh
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response 744 of 870:
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Feb 16 18:44 UTC 2005 |
That's fine, but one's mailbox filling up isn't always about SPAM:
Friends could send you several large file attachments, and that would do it.
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keesan
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response 745 of 870:
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Feb 16 18:47 UTC 2005 |
That is why I started the filter with a section that forwards large mails to
some other address. You could also just set the filter to send the large
mails to /dev/null if you don't have a forwarding address. I added this
filter (with much help from mcnally) after a friend sent me a 700K photo
(which she following with 1.3 and 1.4MB). See the line with 1000 in it.
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gull
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response 746 of 870:
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Feb 16 21:01 UTC 2005 |
I think it'd be better to fix the underlying problem, which is that the
/tmp quota is apparently smaller than the mailbox quota.
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gelinas
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response 747 of 870:
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Feb 16 21:41 UTC 2005 |
SBC is at Provide.Net working on the lines now. Apparently, the problem is
extensive; they hope to get it fixed tonight, but if they can't, they'll be
back on it first thing in the morning.
Right now, the lines are ringing open.
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aruba
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response 748 of 870:
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Feb 16 22:12 UTC 2005 |
Thanks for the update, Joe. I wonder what the problem was? Bad wires, I
suppose.
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