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From: matthews@lewhoosh.umd.edu (Mike Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: HmmMMmmMMmmmmm....
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Date: 15 May 91 21:57:27 GMT
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Two questions.  One, has anyone else had problems with using 'talk' to
machines around the Internet?  Specifically, silver.ucs.indiana.edu and my
machine really hate talking to each other quite frequently.  I get errors
such as port already in use, some sort of timeout, 'checking for invitation
on caller's machine,' and so forth.  And sometimes it works.

I tend to think it's not my end, because other stuff has problems with silver
as well.

Second question.  Yesterday, my machine had a near-hang, in that I typed
'netstat' and it just sat there.  After about half a minute things came back
to normal, but my /usr/adm/messages file had an entry of garbage:
May 14 10:25:22 lewhoosh mach: Target 0: NOT READY; retry 3
(the May 14 10: part was a whole bunch of ^@'s until I edited them out in the
hopes that it just choked on the garbage; did it close the file or something
when I emacs'd it?)

It isn't putting *anything* in that file now.  Anybody have a clue as to why?

I feel a reboot coming.....
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Mike Matthews, matthews@lewhoosh.umd.edu (NeXT)/matthews@umdd (bitnet)
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"Here's something to think about:  How come you never see a headline like
 `Psychic Wins Lottery.'"
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