Subject: Segmentation fault while exceeding quota

From: Jaya Sreedharan <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 15:42:54 GMT

I have installed pine on our system. We have disk quotas for our users, 
but it is different for undergrads and others. When they exceed their 
quota, pine exits with the error "segmentation fault". Even though the 
system warns them about exceeding their quota when they login, they 
usually ignore till they cannot get into pine. If they use the system 
for email only, they have no clue as to what is happening. 

Pine seems to recreate  the .pinerc file after each invocation after 
making a temporary backup file in the home directory. 

Is it possible to avoid the "segmentation fault" error by redirecting 
this to /tmp ?  

elm seems to work ok in such a situation.
Any help will be appeciated.

Jaya Sreedharan

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From: [email-masked] (marijane white)
Date: 18 Apr 1995 21:28:31 GMT

Jaya Sreedharan ([email-masked]) wrote:

: I have installed pine on our system. We have disk quotas for our users, 
: but it is different for undergrads and others. When they exceed their 
: quota, pine exits with the error "segmentation fault". Even though the 
: system warns them about exceeding their quota when they login, they 
: usually ignore till they cannot get into pine. If they use the system 
: for email only, they have no clue as to what is happening. 

my school's unix system boots us into unix mail upon login if we exceed 
our disk quota, and we can't do anything until we delete enough to get 
below our quota.  it's kind of a pain in the neck, but,  i've never 
experienced the error you speak of.

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