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[soniat@MIT.EDU: Re: pine -> alpine?]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nelson Elhage)
Tue Mar 10 13:39:31 2009
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:38:31 -0400
From: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@MIT.EDU>
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Looks like it was the PAG issue.
- Nelson
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From: Sonia Timberlake <soniat@MIT.EDU>
To: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: pine -> alpine?
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:35:24 -0400 (EDT)
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looks fine now! thanks.
On Tue, 10 Mar 2009, Nelson Elhage wrote:
> 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?
>
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