<html dir="ltr"><head></head><body style="text-align:left; direction:ltr;"><div>Used to be an automated backup until my (stupidly overpriced) robotic LTO3 tape system died. SWMBO has vehemently vetoed any more funding for hardware. Keeps muttering about "the other stuff you're supposed to be doing", and "fix the house first".</div><div><br></div><div>Fix the house first is at least a 2 year, full-time, 40+ hours per week process :-( </div><div><br></div><div>On Thu, 2019-01-24 at 09:09 -0500, Derek Atkins via Ale wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><pre>Thanks, and here I was hoping there was an automated method. But good</pre><pre>to know!</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>Thanks,</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>-derek</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>Robert Tweedy <</pre><a href="mailto:robert@robert-tweedy.com"><pre>robert@robert-tweedy.com</pre></a><pre>> writes:</pre><pre><br></pre><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><pre>Derek,</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>I'd tried to access the list's management page Friday night (was</pre><pre>originally investigating why the list had suddenly been quiet all</pre><pre>week) and was greeted with a Mailman "you've hit a bug" error</pre><pre>page. After checking the logs on the server ALE's running on, I saw</pre><pre>that it complained about the config.pck file being unreadable or</pre><pre>missing; when I went to investigate the file itself, I saw that it and</pre><pre>the config.pck.last files had a size of 0 and a creation date of</pre><pre>January 13th indicating that they'd somehow been corrupted/deleted and</pre><pre>re-created with no contents.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>-Robert</pre><pre><br></pre><pre><br></pre><pre> ---- On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 15:04:19 -0500 Derek Atkins</pre><pre><</pre><a href="mailto:derek@ihtfp.com"><pre>derek@ihtfp.com</pre></a><pre>> wrote ----</pre><pre> > Robert, </pre><pre> > </pre><pre> > Robert Tweedy via Ale <</pre><a href="mailto:ale@ale.org"><pre>ale@ale.org</pre></a><pre>> writes: </pre><pre> > </pre><pre> > > Hi all, </pre><pre> > > </pre><pre> > > The ALE mailing list's "config.pck" file corrupted over the weekend </pre><pre> > > and wasn't noticed until this evening. This file contains basically </pre><pre> > </pre><pre> > I'm curious -- how did you notice that it got corrupted? </pre><pre> > </pre><pre> > -derek </pre><pre> > </pre><pre> > -- </pre><pre> > Derek Atkins 617-623-3745 </pre><pre> > </pre><a href="mailto:derek@ihtfp.com"><pre>derek@ihtfp.com</pre></a><pre> </pre><a href="http://www.ihtfp.com"><pre>www.ihtfp.com</pre></a><pre> </pre><pre> > Computer and Internet Security Consultant </pre><pre> > </pre><pre><br></pre><pre><br></pre><pre><br></pre><pre><br></pre></blockquote><pre><br></pre></blockquote><div><span><pre><pre>-- <br></pre>James P. Kinney III
Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you
gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his
own tail. It won't fatten the dog.
- Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain
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