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Grex > Agora > #4: Grex System Problems - Fall 2015/Winter 2016 | |
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papa
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response 93 of 223:
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May 18 23:01 UTC 2017 |
My bbs already-read data was lost during the upgrade. Is it just me?
Not a major problem since I can gradually re-catch-up.
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papa
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response 94 of 223:
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May 18 23:26 UTC 2017 |
emacs executable is no longer in my path. Did it move, or does it need to be
reinstalled?
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cross
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response 95 of 223:
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May 19 00:25 UTC 2017 |
Try now. The installation was messed up.
Due to the age and, er, vintage of the version of OpenBSD running on Grex
before the upgrade, some commands were installed by hand. This caused
conflicts with the package system; the result in this case was a missing
symlink.
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papa
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response 96 of 223:
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May 19 09:28 UTC 2017 |
Emacs is Back and Beautiful! :)
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kentn
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response 97 of 223:
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May 19 22:03 UTC 2017 |
There was a new version of emacs on the old version of Open BSD already.
This one is probably the same or maybe a little newer. So it's not
like we didn't have it before.
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cross
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response 98 of 223:
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May 19 23:33 UTC 2017 |
No one said we didn't.
But because the previous Grex had such an old ports collection, we had
to build that one from source; this caused port name conflicts with the
new version from the ports collection. As a result, the
/usr/local/bin/emacs ssymbolic link wasn't properly installed by the
package manager.
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papa
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response 99 of 223:
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May 20 00:43 UTC 2017 |
What cross said.
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papa
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response 100 of 223:
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May 20 00:57 UTC 2017 |
As I mentioned before, my backtalk/bbs viewing history got zapped during the
OS upgrade. Trying to re-catch-up on old posts has uncovered a new problem:
viewing history is not being updated (or not updated correctly) for
conferences other than Agora.
After reading new items and responses on Agora, I can use the NEXT command
to cycle through conferences in my list, but if I read the new items in a
conference (which, since viewing history was lost, is all items posted since
the beginning) then quit and restart bbs and again cycle through my conference
list with NEXT, the same conferences come up again showing new items, but
their the same items as I previously read.
Does that make any sense?
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tod
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response 101 of 223:
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May 20 01:08 UTC 2017 |
Nice pager fix, Dan!
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cross
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response 102 of 223:
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May 20 01:24 UTC 2017 |
resp:100 Not exactly, but try the "fixseen" command.
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jhesse
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response 103 of 223:
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Jun 1 14:27 UTC 2017 |
So, since yesterday I'm not getting any new mail, with these errors in my
procmail logfile:
procmail: Lock failure on "/var/mail/jhesse.lock"
procmail: Error while writing to "/var/mail/jhesse"
From jhesse@fastmail.net Thu Jun 1 14:14:27 2017
Subject: testfoo
Folder: **Bounced**
My mail client sees nothing over imap. (No old or new mail) elm works as
normal, though.
Do I need to change something?
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papa
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response 104 of 223:
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Jun 1 23:26 UTC 2017 |
Maybe related to jhesse's problem, yesterday I checked my Grex mail box for
the first time since the upgrade and was greeted with the message "Can't open
folder /var/mail/papa: no such folder" instead of the usual "0 messages in
inbox".
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cross
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response 105 of 223:
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Jun 2 00:36 UTC 2017 |
Mail is now delivered into your home directory; so your mail spool file
is in ~/Mailbox. If you're sourcing the global dot files, you should get an
environmnet variable that tells mail programs and the like where to find
your mail.
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cross
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response 106 of 223:
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Jun 2 00:36 UTC 2017 |
resp:103 Oh sorry; missed this earlier today. As as resp:105. If you're
setting $MAIL, then unset it; modify your .procmailrc accordingly.
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jhesse
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response 107 of 223:
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Jun 2 15:08 UTC 2017 |
Thanks! .procmailrc is fixed, so I can get mail again through elm. IMAP and
POP still not working, though. My mail client says it can connect to both
and I'm not seeing anything contrary in the logs.
The server daemon is dovecot, correct? I don't know enough to know the
configuration.
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kentn
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response 108 of 223:
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Jun 2 17:14 UTC 2017 |
Yes, IMAP is a problem now. It doesn't seem to know to look in our home
directory for the Mailbox file. I suspect this requires a bit of tweaking
of the dovecot config, but it is do-able.
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cross
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response 109 of 223:
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Jun 2 20:59 UTC 2017 |
Funny... I updated the dovecot config the
other day. It should work. I'm out of town at
the moment, but will try and see about it if I
can login.
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kentn
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response 110 of 223:
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Jun 3 00:35 UTC 2017 |
Thanks, Dan!
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cross
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response 111 of 223:
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Jun 3 12:15 UTC 2017 |
Ahhh..found it. The dovecot config file moved from the last
version on Grex until now. I've updated the correct version. It
should work again.
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jhesse
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response 112 of 223:
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Jun 3 13:47 UTC 2017 |
Thank you again. Everything seems to be working.
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kentn
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response 113 of 223:
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Jun 3 23:59 UTC 2017 |
Agree. I'm receiving and sending e-mail now. Just took a few tweaks to
my setup (.login, .tcshrc, and .procmailrc).
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tod
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response 114 of 223:
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Jun 11 20:03 UTC 2017 |
Something is quirky...
1 newresponse item
First item 1, last 140
Browse (item list), Read (new items),
Join confname (type "help conf" for a list of conferences),
Help (for more help), pine (for e-mail)
or Quit (to exit from Picospan).
Ok: r
No items found in range
Browse (item list), Read (new items),
Join confname (type "help conf" for a list of conferences),
Help (for more help), pine (for e-mail)
or Quit (to exit from Picospan).
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papa
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response 115 of 223:
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Jun 12 00:11 UTC 2017 |
tod's problem has been happening a lot since the OS upgrade.
The whole fronttalk bookmark system has been wonky. Before the upgrade I had
paged through the backlog in every conference. After the OS upgrade I found
my conference bookmarks all reset. But now if I read through the backlog on
a conference, then check the conference again later, the new item and response
numbers aren't changed.
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papa
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response 116 of 223:
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Jun 12 03:35 UTC 2017 |
P.S. The new items filter on the web interface works fine.
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cross
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response 117 of 223:
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Jun 12 14:04 UTC 2017 |
resp:114 I'm seeing that, too.
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