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scott
response 75 of 293: Mark Unseen   Jan 15 23:22 UTC 2002

I've reprogrammed the bulk of the modems (couldn't get to the ones in use when
I was doing it.)  Any problems lately?  Dialup has been working fine for me
the last couple of days.
aruba
response 76 of 293: Mark Unseen   Jan 16 15:53 UTC 2002

Me too.
remmers
response 77 of 293: Mark Unseen   Jan 17 10:30 UTC 2002

Re #75:  You mean you don't just kick users off when they're in your
way?  What kind of a sysop are you?  :)
davel
response 78 of 293: Mark Unseen   Jan 17 13:53 UTC 2002

Was Grex down for quite a while yesterday?  Dialin got the message from the
termserver & then hung up.  Telnet in simply got connection refused.
keesan
response 79 of 293: Mark Unseen   Jan 17 15:57 UTC 2002

I was online and got the message from woot@grex.cyberspace.org that grex was
'sicxk' and was immediately going offline, I think it was mid-evening.
Today lynx will not access any sites but the grex home page on lynx -
presumably grex is not connected to the world except by phone.
richard
response 80 of 293: Mark Unseen   Jan 17 16:42 UTC 2002

the motd says it was something to do with the mail.  I guess grex is
vulnerable to being attacked via someone setting up a .forward file
and forwarding some giant mailing list through here, or something
keesan
response 81 of 293: Mark Unseen   Jan 17 16:54 UTC 2002

Lynx is now working over the net again.
other
response 82 of 293: Mark Unseen   Jan 17 17:34 UTC 2002

Just now got "no room for file" error trying to update MOTD.
slynne
response 83 of 293: Mark Unseen   Jan 17 21:04 UTC 2002

Is it possible to customize the colors in backtalk? Whenever I used to 
read Agora using the pistachio interface, it used to have a very nice 
color scheme. Then, today, for no apparent reason, the background color 
changed to a kind of weird pale green that totally clashes with the 
green color of the buttons and it is icky. I want to change the 
background color back to the nice muted yellow it was before. Can I do 
that?
mdw
response 84 of 293: Mark Unseen   Jan 17 22:02 UTC 2002

The mail forwarding was an unlucky combination of spam & anti-spam
duelling it out, with grex's mqueue being the battle ground.  People
regularly set up giant mailing lists and forward them through grex, and
we delete them almost as regularly when we notice them -- usually
network lag gives them away.  Lynx breaking is because I had to reboot
the machine the web proxy was running on, in order to get grex running
again, and didn't know that the web proxy doesn't (or didn't)
automatically restart.  I understand it's fixed now, and it's not really
related to the e-mail fit, it was just there lurking to strike when
least expected, and I walked into it.  I'm not sure why other ran out of
filespace; doesn't seem to be shortage just now and certainly /etc/motd
isn't that big.
janc
response 85 of 293: Mark Unseen   Jan 18 01:10 UTC 2002

Re 83: Oops, I installed a new version of Backtalk today and didn't copy 
over all the Grex configurations.  I'll fix it.
other
response 86 of 293: Mark Unseen   Jan 18 02:28 UTC 2002

Now getting a [ Cannot open file for writing ] error when updating /etc/motd.
gelinas
response 87 of 293: Mark Unseen   Jan 18 04:52 UTC 2002

Uuhh...

} Respond, pass, forget, quit, or ? for more options? !ls -alF /etc/motd
} -rw-rw-r--   1 mdw      staff         421 Jan 17 23:05 /etc/motd
} 
} Respond, pass, forget, quit, or ? for more options? !groups other
} other : people motd members voters usenet internet 

Perhaps the 'group' of /etc/motd is wrong?
aruba
response 88 of 293: Mark Unseen   Jan 18 05:56 UTC 2002

I think that's right.  I put the board officers in the MOTD.  I'm currently
in group staff, though, which is why I could do that.
other
response 89 of 293: Mark Unseen   Jan 18 06:21 UTC 2002

Isn't /etc/motd supposed to be owned by group motd so that members of 
group motd have write access to it?
gelinas
response 90 of 293: Mark Unseen   Jan 18 06:23 UTC 2002

Which is right?  That the wrong group is associated with /etc/motd, or that
the 'staff' group is associated with /etc/motd?

If 'staff' is the right group for /etc/motd, then what is the motd group for?
(Just out of curiousity, mind you. ;)
other
response 91 of 293: Mark Unseen   Jan 18 06:41 UTC 2002

Well, the motd group is supposed to be the group of people who have write
access to /etc/motd.  This group, for various reasons, is not equivalent to
staff.
gelinas
response 92 of 293: Mark Unseen   Jan 18 06:46 UTC 2002

(#90 was in reply to #88; I didn't see #89 until after reading #91.)
slynne
response 93 of 293: Mark Unseen   Jan 18 14:57 UTC 2002

re#85 Thanks man!
aruba
response 94 of 293: Mark Unseen   Jan 18 15:20 UTC 2002

I believe /etc/motd should be owned by group motd.  I will send mail to
staff about it.
remmers
response 95 of 293: Mark Unseen   Jan 18 17:05 UTC 2002

Hm, I see that /etc/motd is now owned by group motd and writeable
by group, so somebody fixed it.  Possibly Marcus, since mdw seems
to be the file owner now...
aruba
response 96 of 293: Mark Unseen   Jan 18 23:44 UTC 2002

I sent mail to staff about it, and Valerie fixed it.
carson
response 97 of 293: Mark Unseen   Jan 19 05:12 UTC 2002

I am curious to know if anyone else has been receiving multiple
unsolicited e-mail from a "Free Stuff Queens" list at this host.
Although I have indicated a willingness to file suit against the
owner of the domain, developingdots.com, and also have received
notice indicating my address has been unsubscribed, I continue 
to receive multiple copies of the same unsolicited mail.
anderyn
response 98 of 293: Mark Unseen   Jan 20 01:27 UTC 2002

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tsty
response 99 of 293: Mark Unseen   Jan 22 02:26 UTC 2002

pine config question ... while i prefer   mail    to pine (or
outlook express, eudora, etc.) there are times when attachments
are sent adn i use pine to handle that.
  
so, i created a different directory into which to send email that
needs pine's attention.
  
  
although pine does what i want, it starts with an error message    
  
pine

  bad context  no  '[' in context: /path/to/inbox
  
from setup (reflected in  .pinerc)

personal-name            = <No Value Set: using "TS Taylor">
user-domain              = <Value is Fixed>
smtp-server              = <No Value Set>
nntp-server              = <No Value Set>
inbox-path               = /a/t/s/tsty/pine/INBOX
folder-collections       = /a/t/s/tsty/pine/
news-collections         = <No Value Set>
incoming-archive-folders = <No Value Set>
pruned-folders           = <No Value Set>
default-fcc              = <No Value Set: using "">
default-saved-msg-folder = <No Value Set: using "saved-messages">
postponed-folder         = <No Value Set: using "postponed-msgs">
read-message-folder      = <No Value Set>
 
  
so, what is 'context' wehre is there aupposed to be '[' (the
open bracket) and  how do i "set values" coreectly to change
(i guess) system defaults where 'using' "whatver" is not explicit?
  

 
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