> On Oct 30, 2019, at 4:10 PM, Charles Anthony <charles.unix....@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 4:01 PM Zane Healy <heal...@avanthar.com > <mailto:heal...@avanthar.com>> wrote: > > I rebuilt the system recently, and now the error seems intermittent. I will > say, that backing up my directory of files, and restoring it to the new > system was a lot easier than fighting with the tape drives we had on the > DPS-8 Mainframes I worked with nearly 30 years ago (we ran GCOS-8). > > > I don't recognize that error. I will check on it.
Thanks, that’s a frustrating one, I originally thought it was due to having waited until the disks filled up to start trying to run the crank. Let me know if any further info might help. > I’m getting the following message on the console. This wasn’t initially a > problem, but now is. > 1452.8 Utility.SysDaemon.z: monitor_quota: Storage in > >system_control_1>syserr_log is 26212% full. > > The crank does the daily and weekly accounting; the monthly accounting needs > to be done by hand. (It includes purging the log files). Instructions can be > found at: > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cZsdr67LtE8YeWACdYWum8HIPMcHWdmUffxvK7g-xbs/edit?usp=sharing > > <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cZsdr67LtE8YeWACdYWum8HIPMcHWdmUffxvK7g-xbs/edit?usp=sharing> Looks like i had a corrupt quota system, that doc did the trick! > There is a dps8m/Multics mailing list at > https://sourceforge.net/p/dps8m/mailman/ > <https://sourceforge.net/p/dps8m/mailman/> I just signed up for users and general. That seems like a better place to ask the next question, which is a programming on Multics question. Though it will be a while before I’m ready. Especially since I appear to have accidentally deleted the source code I was working on from my original system, prior to backing it up. Mainframes really should have nightly backups. :-) Zane
