Subject: shell escapes (disabling) and quota error message

From: Ralph Sims <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1993 10:13:56 -0800

Three things, please:

1.  How do I disable pine/pico from giving shell escapes to users (as
well as disabling ctrl-z).

2.  How do I disable pine's ability to read news folders/spool?

3.  How do I supress the "612 Megabytes over limit" message seen
when the index is accessed (we have quotas enabled)?

Many thanks for your help.

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From: Ralph Sims <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1993 06:19:23 -0800 (PST)

> Didn't know there was a shell escape(?).. You can disable ^Z in both by
> not giving the -z flag. That is the default is disabled.

I thought there was the ability to grab a shell in pico.  I briefly
looked, but could not find it.

> You can recompile with quotas turned off, but this sounds like a bug. 
> I believe there's a USE_QUOTAS define somewhere in the .h files that you
> can remove. What system is this for? 

ULTRIX 4.1 on a MicroVAX.

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From: Laurence Lundblade <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1993 07:52:54 -0500 (EST)

Hello Ralph,

> 2.  How do I disable pine's ability to read news folders/spool?

You've have to recompile, commenting out the mail_link(newsdriver); line
in pine.c. (Not sure I got the exact line of the file, but it's close).

LL

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From: Earl Fogel <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1993 08:47:51 -0600 (CST)

> ULTRIX 4.1 on a MicroVAX.

We had a similar problem under Ultrix 4.2 on a DECstation.  When Pine was
recompiled *without* optimization, the problem disappeared.