Subject: Problems under IRIX 5.3b

From: [email-masked] (Michael T Ford)
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 1994 06:26:51 GMT

I've run into a few problems with Pine under IRIX that maybe there
are known fixes for.  We are currently running v. 3.89, but I have
built 3.91, and the staff is testing it.

a) Under both versions, if a customer starts up Pine and is over his
   disk quota, or goes over his quota while reading mail, Pine 
   segfaults and dumps core.  

b) If I go to the list of newsgroups and Goto misc.test, browse that
   group, go back to the List, and then Goto wstd.test (a local
   group), Pine aborts.  This is under 3.91.

c) Under 3.91, I am able to read news, but not post.  We keep out news
   in a spool, i.e., /usr/spool/news/comp/mail/pine.  In my .pinerc 
   file, I have the lines:

	nntp-server=news.std.com
	news-collections=News *[]

   It appears that pine is trying to connect to the nntp-server via
   nntp.  Perhaps I should unset nntp-server?

Any tips, comments, help, pointers, etc, would be appreciated.

--Michael

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From: Mark Crispin <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 1994 16:48:33 -0800

>    group), Pine aborts.  This is under 3.91.

Have you reported these as bugs to [email-masked]?

Pine is never supposed to crash.  If it crashes, it is a bug.  If there's 
a bug, [email-masked] wants to know about it.

Since we don't have any IRIX systems, it would help very much if you can 
give additional information, e.g. if you can run a debugger on the core 
file and send us a stack trace, perhaps a display of some of the 
variables, etc.

>    nntp.  Perhaps I should unset nntp-server?

Your surmise is correct.  NNTP is, at present, the only way to post from
Pine.  So, you need a functioning NNTP server to talk to in order to post.