error message upon accessing the OEIS

Joerg Arndt arndt at jjj.de
Thu Sep 8 11:10:38 CEST 2005


* Ryan Propper <cardinalfan at gmail.com> [Sep 08. 2005 06:21]:
> Hello seqfans,
> 
> Has anyone else been receiving the following message when you try to access the
> OEIS?
> 
> "Can't open dbase: //etc/cgi.access59999 -- Permission denied srv_uid: 59999"
> 
> This happens to me virtually every time I try to do a lookup or access a
> particular sequence.  After a few refreshes and more of the same error message,
> the sequence or search results will eventually pop up.

I see this quite often. Sometimes so bad that I wait an hour or
so for further lookups.  I'd guess it is a server overload.
If it's a problem in the cgi scripts then i'd vote for fixing it  ;-)

> 
> I've emailed njas about the problem several times, but apparently it still
> hasn't been fixed.  Just wondering if anybody else has seen this problem or
> knows anything about it.
> 
> -- Ryan
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