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Adding retry logic for creatin the tar ball to ensure what we upload is valid.
Looping back to creating the tar ball instead of looping on the download.
Updating with the latest steps to fix COMSAT

* [COMSAT is crashing on start](#comsat-is-crashing-on-start)

through out the document you will see certain special characters mentioned. They are slightly different depending on your keyboard and terminal
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Throughout is one word.

* [COMSAT is crashing on start](#comsat-is-crashing-on-start)

through out the document you will see certain special characters mentioned. They are slightly different depending on your keyboard and terminal
* `$` means the ALT or ESC key
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I think it is dangerous to mention ALT. The ALT key on many keyboards is a modifier key that must be held down while another key is pressed. This is not the same as ESC, which is a key intended to pressed on its own, or optionally with a modifier keys

Suggest removing ALT here as people will try to use it in place of ESC to no effect.

through out the document you will see certain special characters mentioned. They are slightly different depending on your keyboard and terminal
* `$` means the ALT or ESC key
* `^` means the CTRL or STRG key
* `<escape>` means the ALT or ESC key in EMACS
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Same comment regarding ALT as above.

* `$` means the ALT or ESC key
* `^` means the CTRL or STRG key
* `<escape>` means the ALT or ESC key in EMACS
* `<control>` means the Control key in EMACS
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Not just in emacs. Everywhere on ITS, including DDT.

* `<control>` means the Control key in EMACS

## COMSAT is crashing on start
Thanks to eswenson for the intial steps here
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Initial is spelled wrong.

Fair Share 99% Totals: 317 0% 1
Logout time = Lost 0% Idle 98% Null time = 5:07
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As you can see above none of the COMSAT processes are running.
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The term is “job” on ITS, not “process”.

As you can see above none of the COMSAT processes are running.

There are several reasons why COMSAT may die upon startup The most common are:
Lets start going through those one by one:
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A little weird to say the first sentence here, followed by a colon. Since the second sentence also has a colon.

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you'll note that that octal address is: 192.168.1.100

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I recommend you insert my writeup on how to decode those octal IP addresses and convert them to standard octet notation. See recent post to PiDP10 mailing list.

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