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CLOUT locked up; help is coming

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From: Dave Ihnat
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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From: ignatz@chinet.chi.il.us (Dave Ihnat)
Subject: CLOUT locked up; help is coming
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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
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