[1480] in athena10
Re: pine -> alpine?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nelson Elhage)
Tue Mar 10 13:26:01 2009
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:25:01 -0400
From: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@MIT.EDU>
To: Sonia Crago Timberlake <soniat@mit.edu>
Cc: linerva@mit.edu
Message-ID: <20090310172501.GV5764@mit.edu>
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Hi Sonia,
I suspect that this is not an alpine bug, but rather a side-effect of
an intermittent bug we've been seeing involving whether or not you get
AFS tokens when you log into Linerva (AFS 'tokens' are what allow you
to access your own files).
We think we've got the problem fixed at the moment. If you log out
from Linerva entirely and log back in and run pine, do you see the
issue again?
- Nelson
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 01:07:33PM -0400, Sonia Crago Timberlake wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I use linux.mit.edu for dialup and pine for mit mail (yeah, i know...)
>
> It seems within the last week you've switched from pine to alpine, though
> i can't see any messages about this in the linerva mailman archive. But
> now i constantly get error messages like:
>
> [ Cannot open file for writing: Permission denied ] (throughout my use)
> Can't write to .pinerc, permission denied (a couple days ago, on startup)
> Can't write to .pinerc, file doesn't exist (now, on startup)
>
> originally (a couple days ago) i did see a .pinerc in my home directory,
> but now its gone.
>
> what's up?
