Subject: inbox is "readonly", interrupted-mail is empty

From: Lee Ann Sakihara <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1993 15:31:52 -1000 (HST)

We are having a few problems running Pine 3.05 under Solaris 2.2
(aka SunOS 5.2), at times the inbox becomes flagged as "readonly" and in
order to resolve the problem, we delete the file:

	/tmp/.\\var\\mail\\username

	This is a temporary solution, but we're wondering if we should
install pine 3.07 or if it has something to do with Solaris.

	The second problem we encountered is that when a session is
disconnected while composing a message.  Normally pine creates the file
interrupted-mail which would contain the text of the message that was
being composed when the system was interrupted.  What happens on our
system is the interrupted-mail file is created, but it contains 0 bytes.

	Any suggestions are welcome.  Thanks in advance.

Lee Ann M. Sakihara                 Internet:  [email-masked]
University of Hawaii Computing Center          Bitnet:  [email-masked]

---

From: Laurence Lundblade <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1993 10:28:47 -0700 (PDT)

This sounds like some problems with the way it was ported to Solaris 2.2. 
Both the locking and disconnect handling stuff vary from machine to
machine. The locking stuff is in the c-client, in the os dependent files
there, and the disconnect handling is in pine/signals.c. 

LL