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Grex > Helpers > #138: Grex System Problems - Winter 2004/2005 |  |
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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
:0:
* ^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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albaugh
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response 749 of 870:
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Feb 16 22:45 UTC 2005 |
"Bad dates"
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gelinas
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response 750 of 870:
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Feb 17 01:37 UTC 2005 |
They have to replace the cable and will be out tomorrow to finish the job.
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dpc
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response 751 of 870:
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Feb 17 01:42 UTC 2005 |
Thanks to whoever fixed my /tmp quota!
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gelinas
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response 752 of 870:
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Feb 17 04:03 UTC 2005 |
I've now reset the quotas on /tmp for all users who have logged in since the
middle of December (Dec 19 14:45 2004, to be precise).
I've also set newuser to assign the new quota to any new users.
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gelinas
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response 753 of 870:
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Feb 17 04:43 UTC 2005 |
I note that there were a couple of connections on tty01 today, before SBC
took the lines down for repair. So I did get the modems connected to the
'right' lines this time. :)
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keesan
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response 754 of 870:
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Feb 17 15:04 UTC 2005 |
Thanks again Joe. Clever of you not to assign new quotas to non-using users
who would just get more spam.
Today my abridged spam filter posted above caught 13 of my 15 spams that
arrived since midnight: 3 X-message, 3 img.src, 1 java, 2 medication, 2 meds,
1 pills, 1 prescripiton, also (using the longer filter) a generic.drug and
a To: true. Before I rearranged the order of filters half of the spams were
caught because of the To: line. It is interesting how most of my current
spam is due to our lack of national health insurance or care.
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gelinas
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response 755 of 870:
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Feb 17 19:23 UTC 2005 |
I think SBC has finished the work on our telephone lines.
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dpc
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response 756 of 870:
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Feb 17 23:28 UTC 2005 |
I've got a "system non-problem" to report. Typically I get at least
50 spam e-mails per day. This morning there were only 5 spams.
And just now I checked, and I have received *no* mail at all!
What happened? Did someone connect a spam filter?
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mcnally
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response 757 of 870:
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Feb 17 23:44 UTC 2005 |
I tried to send an e-mail (from within Pine) and failed on
three successive attempts. The third time I noticed a briefly
flashed message in the status line at the bottom, something
about "Error 451, error writing spool file, mail not sent."
(not an exact quote.)
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