Re: Delayed mail from GNHLUG?

2012-12-11 Thread Ben Scott
Thanks for the compliments, folks. :) -- Ben (just another Linux hacker) ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: Re: Delayed mail from GNHLUG?

2012-12-11 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Bruce Dawson wrote: > The great part is that some users actually noticed that something got fixed! Even better, someone reported the problem! My thanks to the problem-reporter. > Ben: I presume all you had to do was to restart the MTA? (Postfix, sendmail, > w

Job: 2 Systems Administrators, Lebanon, NH

2012-12-11 Thread Alan Johnson
I believe I have been told it is OK to post jobs openings to the general list since the jobs list is pretty dead. My apologies if this is not appropriated. Please e-spank me as you see fit. I am sending this on behalf of my employer. If you know CentOS / RedHat fairly well, or other Linuxes ver

Re: Delayed mail from GNHLUG?

2012-12-11 Thread t . littlefield
True... but I always thought it was a massive faux pas for a SysAdmin to actually admit it was his mistake.  It's never the admin's fault, some user did something bad.  I'm sure if Ben reviewed the logs closely enough, he could finger point. He just took the high road so as not to embarrass som

Re: Server-blockages (was: Delayed mail from GNHLUG?)

2012-12-11 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
"mad...@li.org" writes: > > Did you remove the scroll-lock key cap? That would have been a good idea. `luckily', though, there were only ~2 people in a position to be pressing /any/ keys on the console at that point (you out there, Dave?), both knew better after this experience, and we were all

Re: Delayed mail from GNHLUG?

2012-12-11 Thread Carl Helmers
I noticed the same phenomenon David. I join you in appreciation of Ben's nerd points accumulated over the years... Merry Solstice, Ben, Dave, et al Live long and prosper ...Carl Helmers www.helmers.com On 12/11/2012 10:22 AM, David Hardy wrote: With all due respect to other

Server-blockages (was: Delayed mail from GNHLUG?)

2012-12-11 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ben Scott writes: > > On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Kyle Smith wrote: > > Anyone else just get roughly a weeks worth of mail from the list at once? > > There was an issue[1] with the GNHLUG Internet server. Mail was > being queued for the list server to process, but wasn't going any > furth

Fwd: Re: Delayed mail from GNHLUG?

2012-12-11 Thread Bruce Dawson
The great part is that some users actually noticed that something got fixed! (I've had systems where the users hadn't noticed that something was wrong and simply ignored the fact they weren't getting email because (almost literally) "the magic smoke quit working". Now if only the users (and I'm on

Re: Delayed mail from GNHLUG?

2012-12-11 Thread David Hardy
With all due respect to other nerds on this list, from what I have seen of Ben's information and help over twelve years entitles him to endless nerd points. He gets a permanent free pass. On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Roger H. Goun wrote: > Fortunately, the nerd points that Ben lost by co

Re: Delayed mail from GNHLUG?

2012-12-11 Thread Thomas Charron
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Roger H. Goun wrote: > Fortunately, the nerd points that Ben lost by committing an elementary > sysadmin mistake he got back through the form of his apology. > > We all know that it's just a conspiracy, and the emails being held where *actually* being reviewed

Re: Delayed mail from GNHLUG?

2012-12-11 Thread Roger H. Goun
Fortunately, the nerd points that Ben lost by committing an elementary sysadmin mistake he got back through the form of his apology. On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 8:58 AM, Ben Scott wrote: > On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Kyle Smith wrote: >> Anyone else just get roughly a weeks worth of mail from t

Re: Delayed mail from GNHLUG?

2012-12-11 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Kyle Smith wrote: > Anyone else just get roughly a weeks worth of mail from the list at once? There was an issue[1] with the GNHLUG Internet server. Mail was being queued for the list server to process, but wasn't going any further. Once the problem was cleare

Re: Delayed mail from GNHLUG?

2012-12-11 Thread David Rysdam
On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 08:41:20 -0500, David Hardy wrote: > Same here yesterday morning for an hour or so; Gmail crashed as did > Chrome. It was on their end and made the news. My delay was non-gmail related as you can see by my address. In any case, an error for an hour yesterday could hardly ex

Re: Delayed mail from GNHLUG?

2012-12-11 Thread David Hardy
Same here yesterday morning for an hour or so; Gmail crashed as did Chrome. It was on their end and made the news. On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 8:29 AM, Bayard Coolidge wrote: > Me, too - I'm using Yahoo! mail. I've seen the same phenomenon > occasionally on another list that I'm > on that uses a

Re: Delayed mail from GNHLUG?

2012-12-11 Thread Bayard Coolidge
Me, too - I'm using Yahoo! mail. I've seen the same phenomenon occasionally on another list that I'm on that uses an entirely different server. Season's Greetings, Bayard From: David Rysdam To: Kyle Smith ; Greater New Hampshire LUG Sent: Tuesday, December

Re: Delayed mail from GNHLUG?

2012-12-11 Thread David Rysdam
On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 08:04:17 -0500, Kyle Smith wrote: > Anyone else just get roughly a weeks worth of mail from the list at once? > I'm on GMail. Yes and no. I got some as far back as 11/15. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.or

Delayed mail from GNHLUG?

2012-12-11 Thread Kyle Smith
Anyone else just get roughly a weeks worth of mail from the list at once? I'm on GMail. -- Kyle Smith ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: FairPoint DNS hijacking?

2012-12-11 Thread David Rysdam
On Sun, 09 Dec 2012 17:33:15 -0500, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > Anyone else experience FairPoint DNS hijacking, this evening? > > Between about 16:00 and 17:00, I got home from the mall and noticed > that all of my DNS lookups had started returning 10.255.255.10, > which was (and, apparently, *

Re: From failed drive to hero in many steps

2012-12-11 Thread Mike Bilow
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