From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clerew.man.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Apr 12 2004 - 03:56:51 CDT
Well it'll hardly be news that this list has been down since Friday Apr
2nd. I emailed Kent on Tuesday (Cc this list, which may now have
appeared), but of course his mail was not working either.
On Thursday, telnet to his port 25 indicated that every command received
the response
452 Insufficient system storage
so I left a message on his answering machine, but nothing happened.
Come Saturday, since I have ftp access to his machine for the purpose of
updating the WG web page, I had a good poke around with ftp, and it soon
became apparent that his root partition was full (one of those monolithic
root partitions that contains everything, although all the web and ftp
archives are in a different partition, so they were still working). The
cuplrit appeared to be 100 MB of 1 year's worth output of some daily cron
job in /var/tmp. But I did manage to find the majordome mailing list of
this WG (surprisingly, there are still 131 subscribers to this list), so
on Sunday I started negotiating with my upstream to set up a new mailman
mailing list.
But before activating that I made one last attempt by phone, and managed
to speak to Kent himself, who was totally unaware of the problem so, as
you can see, we are now back up again. I shall now repost all my stuff
that had bounced back to me.
But it is not really a very satisfactory state of affairs :-( .
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