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Article #83CLOUT locked up; help is coming
From: Dave Ihnat
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 00:09
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 00:09
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As Randy Suess pointed out, he doesn't currently have the CLOUT/UofC root password, and a simple reboot wouldn't clear up the problem. The other holder of the access keys, Russell Rezaian, has been notified and will be down there sometime today to clean up the machine. With an outage of less than a day, no mail should be dropped, although some may be rejected if there's no spool space. Once the machine has recovered, we'll postmortem to figure out what happened; but I can pretty well promise that somebody has tried to either FTP or mail a huge source or something similar. This is turning out to be an ongoing problem, and while we prefer to administer without artificial limitations, if this continues we're going to have to develop some sort of "throttle". Please, folks--this is a volunteer effort with donated equipment, and our spool space *is* finite. If you wish to send a multi-megabyte love letter or somesuch, spread it out over a few days... More details as they become available... As for the notification names and numbers on the CLOUT machine itself, this should be there. I'm sure it will be a topic at the next Adminstrators' meeting. Cheers, Dave Ihnat ignatz@homebru.chi.il.us (preferred return address) ignatz@chinet.chi.il.us
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Newsgroups: chi.mail Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!uchinews!machine!chinet!ignatz From: ignatz@chinet.chi.il.us (Dave Ihnat) Subject: CLOUT locked up; help is coming Message-ID: <Bxzn3t.M9r@chinet.chi.il.us> Summary: Keyholder has been notified Keywords: CLOUT, problems Sender: Dave Ihnat Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 00:09:29 GMT Lines: 27