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Grex > Helpers > #138: Grex System Problems - Winter 2004/2005 |  |
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mcnally
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response 787 of 870:
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Feb 24 22:23 UTC 2005 |
/var is full again.
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mcnally
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response 788 of 870:
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Feb 25 01:08 UTC 2005 |
Next time any disk work is done, would it be possible to either
increase the size of the /var partition above 3GB or to put
/var/mail (or /var/spool/mail, or wherever OpenBSD puts it) on
its own partition?
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scholar
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response 789 of 870:
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Feb 25 01:12 UTC 2005 |
Slash var slash mail is on its own partition!
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probably
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response 790 of 870:
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Feb 25 01:13 UTC 2005 |
if you google putty download you'll get a page where you can download the
small .exe. just run it.
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mcnally
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response 791 of 870:
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Feb 25 01:20 UTC 2005 |
re #789: you're right -- somehow I overlooked it before..
it'd still be nice to either have a bigger /var or have whatever
keeps filling it up isolated elsewhere..
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i
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response 792 of 870:
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Feb 25 01:54 UTC 2005 |
I got /var down to 67% full by moving stuff over to /grex/zcore.
Hopefully i didn't screw too much up...
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keesan
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response 793 of 870:
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Feb 25 02:53 UTC 2005 |
Re putty download, my friend has no idea how to download anything. We tried
several times to teach her to download files from grex and gave up. She does
not know what a file is. Or where the files are in the first place. I tried
to draw pictures. Or how to run a program. We set her up to type grex in
order to reach her email here with pine, after turning on the computer.
Someone else managed to set her up with IE and telnet. I tried to explain
how to change from white on black to black on white printing. She lives
several hours bike ride from here and it is snowy out.
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scholar
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response 794 of 870:
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Feb 25 03:17 UTC 2005 |
thanks, i!
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charcat
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response 795 of 870:
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Feb 25 07:46 UTC 2005 |
party comes up with this message
/var: write failed, file system is full
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mcnally
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response 796 of 870:
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Feb 25 08:53 UTC 2005 |
Yes, it's full again.
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tsty
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response 797 of 870:
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Feb 25 10:33 UTC 2005 |
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tsty
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response 798 of 870:
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Feb 25 10:35 UTC 2005 |
.
EOT
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/var: write failed, file system is full
/var: write failed, file system is full
pre
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tough to send email wehn this happens ....
!date
Fri Feb 25 05:35:14 EST 2005
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i
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response 799 of 870:
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Feb 25 12:33 UTC 2005 |
Ditto #792, /var's at 65% now.
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eprom
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response 800 of 870:
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Feb 25 19:12 UTC 2005 |
still can't get backtalk to save configurations changes...can someone look
into this????
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naftee
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response 801 of 870:
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Feb 26 00:31 UTC 2005 |
yeah ?????
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gelinas
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response 802 of 870:
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Feb 26 04:34 UTC 2005 |
I think it's going to have to wait for Jan, Jeffrey.
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gull
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response 803 of 870:
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Feb 26 19:39 UTC 2005 |
Wow. And here I thought we'd be done with the whole 'disk full' thing
for a while after getting the new system.
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keesan
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response 804 of 870:
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Feb 26 20:06 UTC 2005 |
Latest problem is that seven of us were waiting for someone with a key to
show up at the pumpkin. Jim and I walked to my apartment to clean out the
yard so it will hold a desk and three big chairs. We can hold onto grex stuff
for a month at most while people decide whether to pick anything up. Metal
shelving, mounting rack, but mostly SUN stuff and maybe 3 mono monitors.
A few phones. Don't know what the movers will keep.
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naftee
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response 805 of 870:
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Feb 26 22:34 UTC 2005 |
GrexStand
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scott
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response 806 of 870:
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Feb 26 23:47 UTC 2005 |
The move went great, once the key issues was resolved (thanks Aruba!). I
snagged my old 5-line office phone and several big Sun VME cards.
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keesan
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response 807 of 870:
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Feb 27 00:48 UTC 2005 |
Scott, what are you going to do with the big cards? We had hoped to recycle
the rest of them but our neighbor stopped by to see if anything was worth
putting on eBay and informed us that Friedman's Nonferrous Metals Recycling
closed a month ago. There are rumors they may have opened a different place
in Ypsi, which is not much help to us.
We spent a few hours taking apart: 2 keyboards (cracked, missing
keys), 2 IBM PCs (one with a hard card, the other with 2 full-height floppy
drives), a 9600 bps external modem (Practical Peripherals), several drive
enclosures for full-height scsi drives, a 9-in TI printer. THe box of
diskette labels did not have an inventory number. We still have the previous
grex computer, lots of cards, some T1 stuff, something that you can plug about
10 modems into, two SPARC terminals, two Ann Arbor Ambassador dumb terminals,
three monitors that might be TTL with burnin, a Sparc keyboard, another
keyboard, a few smaller boxes we cannot yet identify, some wires, one internal
modem (14.4 or slower?), a 486 motherboard, and a desk and three big chairs
and maybe some shelving. Anyone want any of this? A Sparc mouse with three
elongated buttons, cute. Various metal plates that may have gone with the
rack that went to provide.net. We are wondering WHY grex kept some of the
above when it was over 20 years old.
We are putting the smaller metal pieces into the recycle bin but does
anyone know of a place that accepts ferrous metal and does not charge to take
it? (They used to pay, but we lost both local junkyards). Kiwanis takes its
computer stuff (and will take our monitors and terminals) to a place that pays
5 cents/pound - maybe they will come pick up our boards and larger cases.
We used to get about 15-20 cents/lb for 'greenboard'.
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gelinas
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response 808 of 870:
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Feb 27 03:20 UTC 2005 |
It should be a while until the home-directory partitions fill up. However,
/var seems to be something else.
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scholar
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response 809 of 870:
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Feb 27 03:24 UTC 2005 |
it's ur mom
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drew
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response 810 of 870:
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Feb 27 05:14 UTC 2005 |
Re #807:
I might have a use for the 9600 baud modem, as a backup for my 33.6K.
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scott
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response 811 of 870:
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Feb 27 13:12 UTC 2005 |
I took those VME cards for decorative purposes. :)
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