Subject: .pinerc: cross-linked file error

From: [email-masked] (Neil Harkins)
Date: 8 May 1995 17:36:09 GMT

All of a sudden I started getting this error when I start pine:

 [Error saving configuration in file "/home/neil/.pinerc": Cross-device link]

Any ideas what "cross-device link" means?

-Neil Harkins
[email-masked]

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From: Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 17:10:14 -0700 (PDT)

It probably means that pine is trying to rename the temporary file it
built while rewriting the pinerc file and that temporary file is on a
different file system.  It's kind of hard to come up with reasons why
this might happen.  I you don't have write and execute access on your
home directory, I think that would cause it...

Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Networks and Distributed Computing, Univ. of Washington, Seattle