Subject: Major problem with Pine3.91, can't post!

From: [email-masked] (Top Dog)
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 1994 21:23:25 GMT

I am having a major problem with Pine3.91. It will not send mail for me. 
I can use Pine3.89 without any problems, but 3.91 just will not work. I am using
a Linux (unix) system with sendmail installed.

	First off when I start pine I get this message:

	[Error saving configuration in file "/root/.pinerc": Invalid argument] 

	Then the main screen will come up and everything seems to be fine, but when I
try to compose a message and type ^X to send I get this message:

	[Can't write temp file for sending: Unknown error]
I am at a loss. I have checked my permissions and they seem to be fine. But just in case 
here they are:
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root         7725 Dec 14 01:03 .pinerc
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root       122207 Oct 30 14:17 pico*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root      1421940 Oct 30 14:17 pine*

        I don't know what to do from here. I have reinstalled pine several times with the
same results. If anyone could give me some help I would really appreciate it.

Thanks in advance.
Andre

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Andre Bell

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From: Stuart Tares <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 1994 13:31:21 +0000 (GMT)

> same results. If anyone could give me some help I would really appreciate it.

Andre,

I too am running Linux and sendmail and have managed to get Pine 3.91 
working without any great problems.  I don't know what the problems with 
.pinerc is but the most likely problem with your inability to send mail 
is incorrect permissions on sendmail.

The sendmail binary on my system (and most other systems I have seen) has 
setuid bit set which ensures that when a normal user sends mail, the 
forked sendmail process has the correct permissions.

If this does not cure the problem, please email me at the below address 
(do not reply to this - see a previous message of mine), with whatever 
relevant details you have, such as version of sendmail (V5 or V8), 
whether it is IDA or another version.  I will endeavour to help you as 
much as possible.

Stuart

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Stuart Tares			Email : [email-masked]
Senior Network Analyst		Voice : +44 181 742 4060
DHL Systems Ltd
Communications Service Group - Europe & Africa Region

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From: [email-masked] (Top Dog)
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 1994 18:40:55 GMT

Well I found the problem. It wasn't with pine, but there was
a problem on my box. I use a compression library on my Linux box called
'zlibc' which allows me to use compressed data and text file. It seams
that pine3.91 doesn't like this library, so the fix is that I have to
unlink zlib from libc.so.4 and link libc.so.4 to a standard library.
	Everything works fine. Thanks to those who responded to my
plea. If anyone is having trouble with this type of setup I would be
glad to help.

Andre Bell