[UCIMC-Tech] Re: is mail to lists.chambana.net working? sshd not running on www.ucimc.org?

Mike Lehman rebelmike at earthlink.net
Sun Jan 13 12:48:10 CST 2008


Josh,
I think it's fixed. I just sent a message to a couple of RFU groups and 
it shows in the archives, as well as coming through on the list.
Thanks!
Mike Lehman

Josh King wrote:
> Okay, I think I found the problem. One of the drives on imsahp is 
> full. I thought it wasn't a problem initially, as it seems like it's 
> mostly old stuff and system things that aren't often updated. However, 
> although most of mailman is on a different drive with plenty of space, 
> the archives are linked to the drive that is now full. I've moved the 
> archives to the drive with plenty of space and restarted mailman. I'm 
> considering this message to the imc-tech list a test, and if it shows 
> up in the archive then I think that everything is fixed. I should have 
> realized the problem earlier, but with luck it's now resolved.
>
> Mike Lehman wrote:
>> Hi Stuart,
>> Just checked a couple of RFU lists and a couple of IMC lists and 
>> you're right. Messages are getting through, but don't appear in the 
>> archive since Thursday. If any changes were made to the system 
>> Thursday, I'd guess that would be the first place I'd look for 
>> solutions.
>> Mike Lehman
>>
>> Stuart Levy wrote:
>>> On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 12:51:23AM -0600, Josh King wrote:
>>>  
>>>> Judging from the logs, it looks like Mailman for some reason didn't 
>>>> acknowledge the list's existence and shoved it back in the postfix 
>>>> queue. I'm not sure what the underlying problem was, but it may 
>>>> have been fixed when I restarted the Mailman qrunner processes. 
>>>> Along with about 20 other things I'm working on a complete revamp 
>>>> of the IMC's email services, so with luck these sorts of problems 
>>>> won't happen so often (eventually). ;)
>>>>     
>>>
>>> I guess I should take back the previous comment -- it's still not 
>>> fixed.
>>> The peace-discuss message that I thought I'd seen, turned out to be
>>> Cc'd directly to me.  And the peace-discuss archive still has no new
>>> messages in it since Thursday.
>>>
>>> For that matter, the imc-tech archive *also* shows no new messages
>>> since Thursday, even though all this thread has been copied to it.
>>>
>>> So I'm afraid it still is a real problem and getting serious.
>>>
>>> Mike, you mentioned that some lists were still getting traffic?
>>> Which ones?  Do those messages show up in their archives?
>>>
>>>  
>>>> Stuart Levy wrote:
>>>>   
>>>>> On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 06:20:55PM -0600, Josh King wrote:
>>>>>     
>>>>>> I think they're working okay, or at least I've seen some traffic 
>>>>>> now and my own message seems to have gone onto the imc-tech list. 
>>>>>> I'm going to continue to keep an eye on things and will comb 
>>>>>> through the logs to see if I can find if the specific messages 
>>>>>> Stuart mentioned were denied for other reasons.
>>>>>>         
>>>>> OK, thanks!
>>>>> Here's the one I sent which hasn't shown up.
>>>>> Since one peace-discuss note did appear this evening, maybe
>>>>> whatever mysteriously broke is now mysteriously fixed?
>>>>> I will send another copy of this note to peace-discuss
>>>>> as a test.  But here's the original, including its Date: header:
>>>>>     From slevy at ncsa.uiuc.edu Sat Jan 12 02:14:35 2008
>>>>>     Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 02:14:35 -0600
>>>>>     From: Stuart Levy <slevy at ncsa.uiuc.edu>
>>>>>     To: peace-discuss at anti-war.net
>>>>>     Subject: another theory for the Persian Tonkin Gulf Incident
>>>>>     Message-ID: <20080112081435.GB18139 at osage.ncsa.uiuc.edu>
>>>>>     The Register (www.theregister.co.uk), a techie news & gossip 
>>>>> column with
>>>>>     sometimes-interesting politics, posts a plausible explanation for
>>>>>     the near-conflict between a US ship and some Iranian boats in 
>>>>> the Persian Gulf.
>>>>>     If true, it could well be that that both sides are correctly 
>>>>> representing
>>>>>     what they said and what they heard, but that the 
>>>>> threatening-sounding language
>>>>>     was coming from someone else with a radio transmitter, 
>>>>> somewhere in the Gulf area,
>>>>>     who heard the routine radio interchange and decided to make 
>>>>> mischief.
>>>>>     In other words, that the Navy was duped into thinking it was 
>>>>> being threatened.
>>>>>     Apparently this is not that unusual.  See the article:
>>>>>     
>>>>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/11/us_iran_navy_speedboat_row_filipino_monkey/ 
>>>>>
>>>>>     But, good grief.  This is better than Milo Minderbinder's 
>>>>> mimeograph machine.
>>>>>     Some yahoo with a radio could easily have given us the excuse our
>>>>>     Administration has been waiting for -- to go to war.
>>>>>     The only puzzle is, as the article notes, why the Iranians 
>>>>> aren't suggesting
>>>>>     something like this as an explanation for the incident.
>>>>>        Stuart
>>>>>       
>>>> -- 
>>>> Josh King
>>>> -- 
>>>> josh at ucimc.org
>>>> -- 
>>>> System Administrator, Chambana.net (http://www.chambana.net)
>>>> -- 
>>>> "I am an Anarchist not because I believe Anarchism is the final 
>>>> goal, but because there is no such thing as a final goal." -Rudolf 
>>>> Rocker
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>   
>>
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