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From: hv@uwasa.fi (Harri Valkama)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: garbo
Keywords: nethack,virus
Message-ID: <1991May23.103500.8209@uwasa.fi>
Date: 23 May 91 10:35:00 GMT
References: <1991May22.153246.6351@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1991May22.170304.10554@mips.mitek.com> <1991May23.014014.14043@serval.net.wsu.edu>
Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
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In article <1991May23.014014.14043@serval.net.wsu.edu> msmith@att3b2.tricity.wsu.edu (Mark Smith) writes:
>Is garbo down??  I've tried to ftp in several times but i get..
>
>425 unable to open data path, service interupted.  
>
>or something similar.  wassup?

garbo has been up unbeliavable long time :)  and still is.  I think we
brake a record or something.

ruptime:
garbo         up 83+04:41,     2 users,  load 0.40, 0.07, 0.02

Perhaps we should force it down...

But we still have problems with our net software.

This is our standard answer to this kind of problem.

> "Can't build data connection: Interrupted system service"

Although   we have already built  and  installed a  new  ftp daemon it
didn't solve all our problems concerning this.  The trouble appears to
be a timing problem in  the  mips supplied inet-daemon.  We are trying
to get this fixed. For all I know, you may succeed,  if you just retry
the operation. And I know that although you don't get  dir listing you
can retrieve files   if you know where   they are  and what   are they
called. So get yourself a  copy of pc/INDEX or pc/_file.lst  and check
the files out from there.

BTW, not all users seem to suffer from this condition,  so maybe it is
some kind  of  compatibilty problem (mips  inetd  uses   the  new  van
Jacobsen code).

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== Harri Valkama, University of Vaasa, Finland ============================
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