I had a disk-full situation here on Vertrauen over the weekend and lost the messages in this sub-board.

So if you asked a question in here recently or replied to someone else's message, that message may have been lost and you may want to re-post it.

digital man

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On 2018 Apr 30 17:48:58, you wrote to All:

I had a disk-full situation here on Vertrauen over the weekend and lost

the

messages in this sub-board.

would that explain why SYNCDATA had a ~3000 message dump last night (2018 Apr 30 ~02:00 UTC-0400)??

just curious...

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Re: Lost messages
By: mark lewis to Digital Man on Mon Apr 30 2018 09:15 pm

On 2018 Apr 30 17:48:58, you wrote to All:

I had a disk-full situation here on Vertrauen over the weekend and lost

the

messages in this sub-board.

would that explain why SYNCDATA had a ~3000 message dump last night (2018 Apr 30 ~02:00 UTC-0400)??

just curious...

Precisely. Some of my FidoNet export pointers were lost (and thus, inadvertedly "reset"). I've made some improvements to the code so the same situation won't happen to others if they run into the same scenario (no free disk space).

I had > 100GB of free disk space on Friday, but a run-away task created an unbounded number of syslog entries which eventually filled the disk and kept re-filling it as soon as there was any available space (e.g. a file was truncated or deleted).

digital man

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Re: Lost messages
By: Digital Man to All on Mon Apr 30 2018 05:48 pm

I had a disk-full situation here on Vertrauen over the weekend and lost the messages in this sub-board.

So if you asked a question in here recently or replied to someone else's message, that message may have been lost and you may want to re-post it.

digital man

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Re: Lost messages
By: mark lewis to Digital Man on Mon Apr 30 2018 09:15 pm

On 2018 Apr 30 17:48:58, you wrote to All:

I had a disk-full situation here on Vertrauen over the weekend and lost

the

messages in this sub-board.

would that explain why SYNCDATA had a ~3000 message dump last night (2018 Apr 30 ~02:00 UTC-0400)??

just curious...

no
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Re: Lost messages
By: Digital Man to mark lewis on Mon Apr 30 2018 07:16 pm

Precisely. Some of my FidoNet export pointers were lost (and thus, inadvertedly "reset"). I've made some improvements to the code so the same situation won't happen to others if they run into the same scenario (no free disk space).

I had > 100GB of free disk space on Friday, but a run-away task created an unbounded number of syslog entries which eventually filled the disk and kept

did you pull a robert wolfe and flood fidonet
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Re: Lost messages
By: Digital Man to All on Mon Apr 30 2018 05:48 pm

I had a disk-full situation here on Vertrauen over the weekend and lost the messages in this sub-board.

I'm going to start a conspiracy theory here The Russians hacked Vertrauen.
paid for by Hillary and the DNC.

... Nothing I have found is factual, except the bits that sound like fiction.

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On 2018 Apr 30 19:16:18, you wrote to me:

I had a disk-full situation here on Vertrauen over the weekend and
lost the messages in this sub-board.

would that explain why SYNCDATA had a ~3000 message dump last night
(2018 Apr 30 ~02:00 UTC-0400)??

just curious...

Precisely. Some of my FidoNet export pointers were lost (and thus, inadvertedly "reset"). I've made some improvements to the code so the
same situation won't happen to others if they run into the same
scenario (no free disk space).

that makes sense... some of the weirdest things happen at times...

I had > 100GB of free disk space on Friday, but a run-away task
created an unbounded number of syslog entries which eventually filled
the disk and kept re-filling it as soon as there was any available
space (e.g. a file was truncated or deleted).

BTDT... had one machine that decided its keyboard was stuck and logged some 90GB of stuck key errors in syslog... when we realized that something was up and started trying to fix it, th emachine fought back pretty hard... we finally
were able to run logrotate enough to move the affected log out of the way... we
considered trying to edit out all of the stuck key entries but... we never did figure out why the system thought the keyboard was stuck... it is still in use today...

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Re: Lost messages
By: Digital Man to All on Mon Apr 30 2018 17:48:59

I had a disk-full situation here on Vertrauen over the weekend and lost the messages in this sub-board.

Don't think I've ever seen that happen in a looooong time :-(

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Re: Lost messages
By: MRO to mark lewis on Mon Apr 30 2018 21:35:24

would that explain why SYNCDATA had a ~3000 message dump last night
(2018 Apr 30 ~02:00 UTC-0400)??
just curious...

no

Seems you're wrong (again?)

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Re: Lost messages
By: Denn to Digital Man on Mon Apr 30 2018 10:59 pm

I'm going to start a conspiracy theory here The Russians hacked Vertrauen. paid for by Hillary and the DNC.

We'll need to launch an investigation.

Nightfox

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I had a disk-full situation here on Vertrauen over the weekend and lost the messages in this sub-board.

I'm going to start a conspiracy theory here The Russians hacked Vertrauen. paid for by Hillary and the DNC.

lol, that I needed :)


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Re: Lost messages
By: Denn to Digital Man on Mon Apr 30 2018 10:59 pm

Re: Lost messages
By: Digital Man to All on Mon Apr 30 2018 05:48 pm

I had a disk-full situation here on Vertrauen over the weekend and lost the messages in this sub-board.

I'm going to start a conspiracy theory here The Russians hacked Vertrauen. paid for by Hillary and the DNC.

he probably downloaded too much porn.
that always happens with bbses.info
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I had a disk-full situation here on Vertrauen over the weekend and lost the messages in this sub-board.

I'm going to start a conspiracy theory here The Russians hacked Vertrauen. D>paid for by Hillary and the DNC.

LOL!!

Daryl

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Re: Lost messages
By: Denn to Digital Man on Mon Apr 30 2018 22:59:48

Re: Lost messages
By: Digital Man to All on Mon Apr 30 2018 05:48 pm

I had a disk-full situation here on Vertrauen over the weekend and lost the messages in this sub-board.

I'm going to start a conspiracy theory here The Russians hacked Vertrauen. paid for by Hillary and the DNC.

... Nothing I have found is factual, except the bits that sound like fiction

Hillary uploaded her stories about sexcapades with her husband and other third parties... there was not enough space on disk for all of it

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On 04/30/18, Digital Man pondered and said...

I had a disk-full situation here on Vertrauen over the weekend and lost the messages in this sub-board.

So if you asked a question in here recently or replied to someone else's message, that message may have been lost and you may want to re-post it.

Hi Rob

Seems Zone 21 traffic to your system is also impacted.

[snip]

May 02 20:42:30 Scanning 21:1/183
May 02 20:42:30 Queued 2 files (205921 bytes) to 21:1/183
May 02 20:42:30 Polling BINKP node 21:1/183 by IPV4
May 02 20:42:30 Connecting to vert.synchro.net
May 02 20:42:30 Using address 71.95.196.34
May 02 20:42:31 Connected IPV4 to 71.95.196.34
May 02 20:42:31 S: NUL SYS fsxHUB [fsxNet WHQ]
May 02 20:42:31 S: NUL ZYZ Paul Hayton
May 02 20:42:31 S: NUL VER Mystic/1.12A39 binkp/1.0
May 02 20:42:31 S: ADR 21:1/100@fsxnet 21:1/3@fsxnet 21:1/2@fsxnet 21:1/0@fsxnet 21:0/0@fsxnet
May 02 20:42:32 C: NUL OPT CRAM-MD5-185fe702ce7ac8e85b21ebe3b5fe34c5 CRYPT
May 02 20:42:32 C: NUL SYS Vertrauen
May 02 20:42:32 System Vertrauen
May 02 20:42:32 C: NUL ZYZ Rob Swindell
May 02 20:42:32 SysOp Rob Swindell
May 02 20:42:32 C: NUL LOC Riverside County, California
May 02 20:42:32 Location Riverside County, California
May 02 20:42:32 C: NUL NDL 115200,TCP,BINKP
May 02 20:42:32 Info NDL 115200,TCP,BINKP
May 02 20:42:32 C: NUL TIME Wed May 02 2018 01:42:48 GMT-0700 (Pacific
Daylight Time)
May 02 20:42:33 Info TIME Wed May 02 2018 01:42:48 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)
May 02 20:42:33 C: NUL VER BinkIT/2.2,JSBinkP/1.106,sbbs3.17a/Win32 binkp/1.1 May 02 20:42:33 Mailer BinkIT/2.2,JSBinkP/1.106,sbbs3.17a/Win32 binkp/1.1
May 02 20:42:33 C: ADR 1:103/705@fidonet 21:1/183@fsxnet
May 02 20:42:33 S: PWD
May 02 20:42:33 C: OK secure
May 02 20:42:33 Sending: 0000ffad.su4 (78,224 bytes)
May 02 20:42:33 S: FILE 0000ffad.su4 78224 1525046302 0
May 02 20:42:34 C: EOB
May 02 20:42:35 C: SKIP 0000ffad.su4 78224 1525046302
May 02 20:42:35 Sending: 0000ffad.mo6 (127,697 bytes)
May 02 20:42:35 S: FILE 0000ffad.mo6 127697 1525132780 0
May 02 20:42:36 C: SKIP 0000ffad.mo6 127697 1525132780
May 02 20:42:36 S: EOB
May 02 20:42:36 Session ended (0 sent, 0 rcvd, 2 skip)

[snip]

Seems the skip thing is an issue and I can confirm a similar burp in FSX_GEN
in Z21 .. but hey, it happens to all of us at times and there's *no* issue at all :)

Glad you're back up and running now :)

Best, Paul

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Re: Re: Lost messages
By: Paul Hayton to Digital Man on Wed May 02 2018 08:46 pm

Seems Zone 21 traffic to your system is also impacted.

It seems to be working okay now. Are you still seeing errors?

digital man

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Re: Lost messages
By: Digital Man to All on Mon Apr 30 2018 05:48 pm

I had a disk-full situation here on Vertrauen over the weekend and lost the messages in this sub-board.

So if you asked a question in here recently or replied to someone else's message, that message may have been lost and you may want to re-post it.

I didn't have the syslog problem until I uncommented it in the SBBS config ini file. It would just keep writing until there was no space left, then knocking everything proportion. syslog is evil.

Sincerely,
Jon Justvig
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Re: Lost messages
By: Jon Justvig to Digital Man on Thu May 17 2018 08:43 am

I didn't have the syslog problem until I uncommented it in the SBBS config ini file. It would just keep writing until there was no space left, then knocking everything proportion. syslog is evil.

I currently have roughly 261 MB of logs in /var/log. A lot to read there but good to have if you ever need to see what is happening on your system.

On my slackware box those logs are maintained by logrotate so they never get much bigger than that. I think logrotate has an option to compress the backups, (.1 - .4 in my case) but I have not looked at my logrotate.conf in for ever.

Ttyl :-),
Al


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Re: Re: Lost messages
By: Lord Time to Denn on Tue May 01 2018 11:01 am

Hi Rob


My 1st Choice Core is offline due to power outage (modem rest) and
I have to be home to fix that, will be home tomorrow thursday new zealand time about 4 pm can you please pass this one tim to please

Thank you

Ian S 1st Choice Core Sbbs Nz

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My 1st Choice Core is offline due to power outage (modem rest)

ohh nooo

and
I have to be home to fix that, will be home tomorrow thursday new zealand time about 4 pm can you please pass this one tim to please

ok and do you mean terry b. (r15)?


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On 2018 Aug 14 22:26:02, you wrote to Sneaky:

I have to be home to fix that, will be home tomorrow thursday new
zealand time about 4 pm can you please pass this one tim to please

ok and do you mean terry b. (r15)?

somehow i don't think that region 15 is in new zealand... at least not the fidonet region 15 ;)

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On 2018 Aug 14 22:26:02, you wrote to Sneaky:

I have to be home to fix that, will be home tomorrow thursday new
zealand time about 4 pm can you please pass this one tim to please

ok and do you mean terry b. (r15)?

somehow i don't think that region 15 is in new zealand... at least not the fidonet region 15 ;)

he get messages / ftn's from both of us


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Hi Lord Time

My 1st Choice Core is offline due to power outage (modem rest)

ohh nooo

okay, I am home and all back online and back to normal.

and
I have to be home to fix that, will be home tomorrow thursday new zealand time about 4 pm can you please pass this one tim to please

ok and do you mean terry b. (r15)?

and thank you for letting Terry b :) now of this as well.


All is good thank you

Ian S 1st Choice Core Sbbs Nz
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My 1st Choice Core is offline due to power outage (modem rest)

ohh nooo

okay, I am home and all back online and back to normal.

good :)

and
I have to be home to fix that, will be home tomorrow thursday new zealand time about 4 pm can you please pass this one tim to please

ok and do you mean terry b. (r15)?

and thank you for letting Terry b :) now of this as well.

your welcome and was in skype with him, when I told him

All is good thank you

your welcome


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