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Re: Pine doesn't seem to work consistently on linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Leon)
Sun Mar 15 14:13:37 2009
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 14:12:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: Christopher Leon <ccleon@MIT.EDU>
To: Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>
cc: linerva@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <49BB6138.80101@mit.edu>
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Hi Evan,
Hmm...I don't think it's machine dependent. I had that fix applied on
all the machines that I log in from. I have another one in which I just
applied the fix, and I still get the same error.
Chris
On Sat, 14 Mar 2009, Evan Broder wrote:
> Chris -
> Is it possible that you're seeing this error based on what computer
> you login from?
>
> If you're running into this problem when logging in from other Debathena
> machines (such as the Debathena Beta cluster workstations in W20, 12,
> 56, and 66), try applying the fix we describe at
> <http://web.mit.edu/linerva/www/> under the "Permission denied errors
> trying to run dotfiles on login" section.
>
> We'll keep looking to see if anything seems wrong on our end.
>
> - Evan
>
> Christopher Leon wrote:
>> Hi Evan,
>> OK, I just did that.
>>
>> The funny thing with this error is that I don't know how to reproduce
>> it. For example, as I'm writing this e-mail, I keep getting a message
>> that says:
>>
>> "Cannot open file for writing: Permission denied"
>>
>> And, sometimes, I notice if I open and close pine, it will give me a
>> message telling me to press E to exit this greeting...it's the message
>> that shows up in pine when you first use it.
>>
>> And sometimes, if I write e-mails for a while, it will say something
>> like it can't read some file. I think it's the .pinerc file, but I
>> haven't been observant enough to remember what exactlly happens.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 13 Mar 2009, Evan Broder wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Chris -
>>> alpine is a complete rewrite of pine, but is released under a more
>>> generally acceptable license, which has caused it to be incorporated
>>> into recently Debian and Ubuntu distributions. It should largely be a
>>> drop-in replacement for pine.
>>>
>>> We have heard a few reports of issues, though. Would you mind letting us
>>> read your pine settings file to see if there are any indications of the
>>> problem in there? You can do that by running:
>>>
>>> mv ~/.pinerc ~/Public/pinerc
>>> ln -s ~/Public/pinerc ~/.pinerc
>>>
>>> That should let you hold on to your customizations while allowing us to
>>> see the file.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> - Evan
>>>
>>> Christopher Chih-Wan Loo Leon wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>> I use pine frequently. I noticed since the recent upgrade, that I
>>>> would get some weird permission denied error in pine. And that
>>>> sometimes, my profile for pine seems to disappear when I am writing
>>>> e-mail. Is this a feature of the new system? I notice that it's
>>>> "alpine" and not "pine" anymore too...
>>>> Chris
>>>
>
