[1504] in athena10
Re: pine -> alpine?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nelson Elhage)
Tue Mar 10 21:06:36 2009
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:05:37 -0400
From: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@MIT.EDU>
To: Sonia Crago Timberlake <soniat@mit.edu>
Cc: linerva@mit.edu
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Hm. Looks like we haven't quite caught the problem. We're looking into
it, but in the meantime, if it's happening again, you can work around
it by exiting pine, running 'aklog', and restarting it if this happens
again.
We apologize for this inconvenience.
- Nelson
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 02:00:02PM -0400, Sonia Crago Timberlake wrote:
> oh wait....
> it was fine the first time i started up pine in the new session,
> but now i'm back to this:
> [Can't modify configuration file
> "/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/s/o/soniat/.pinerc": ReadOnly]
>
>
> On Tue, 10 Mar 2009, Sonia Timberlake wrote:
>
>> 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?
>>>
>>
