Hello from Gregg C Levine normally with Jedi Knight Computers In answer to your question, yes I do know. It isn't pretty. I imagine that the folks who use Notes will kvetch about this, and I expect they will do so, but that's what happened. (And please do so, off list, directly to me. I don't want to flood the list with those complaints.) On another list, which I subscribe to, the VMESA-L one, which is how I found out about this list, that's exactly what happened. At least I think it did.
One of them, an Exchange box fired at a Notes server. The Notes server reacted badly. It was exactly as if it was a carrier based pilot for it crashed and burned. It then proceeded to flood the list with such "help" messages for the entire evening. This was over a weekend some years ago, so no help came to its aid, until the following Monday. It finally quacked and stopped, after sending out dozens of such messages until about six hours after discovery. And remember this is my opinion only. It might not have happened. Then again it could have. No one took the time to explain to the list what did happen. ------------------- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------ "The Force will be with you...Always." Obi-Wan Kenobi "Use the Force, Luke." Obi-Wan Kenobi (This company dedicates this E-Mail to General Obi-Wan Kenobi ) (This company dedicates this E-Mail to Master Yoda ) > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of > Tzafrir Cohen > Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 6:00 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] mingetty and console output > > On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, John Summerfield wrote: > > > On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > > > > Hi > > > > > > I have an init script that writes output to the console (I've ruled out > > > redirecting its output to a file or to network syslog for various reasons) > > [snip] > > > > > Would it be possible to use syslog(), and to configure the machine for > > remote logging? > > > > Under what circumstances do you want to be able to see this output? > > > > I'm groping for ideas coz I don't know enough about your objectives. > > I've considered, but ruled it out. I can't rely on the network to be > available... > > Another, totally unrelated note: > > This is actually the third reply I get to my message. The first two were > from two very kind people that bothered telling me that they are not > available to answer my question. (Actually: One of them even did so in > German, so I can only guess that this is what he meant). Needless to say > that this was a great help. > > Both of them seem to use exchange 5.5, if I read their headers correctly > ("X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2654.52)"). This wonderful > auto-replier seems to have ignored the fact that this message had an > Errors-To: headers and went on to send the "out-of-office" replies to the > original sender, instead of the list owner (the list owner may have taken > an action such as suspending the membership temporarily, on the account of > a non-nettiqual behaviour which causes unnecessary traffic). > > People: if you don't want to cause problems, don't use broken > auto-repliers. > > BTW: I wonder what happpens if you let two such auto-repliers reply to one > another... > > -- > Tzafrir Cohen > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir
