Subject: inbox readonly problem

From: [email-masked] (Paul Ross)
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 1995 17:20:47 GMT

Yesterday morning my inbox started being accessed as readonly???? why??
I am running pine 3.90 under Linux. Mailx works fine just not pine. 
HEEEELLLLPPPP!!!!
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From: [email-masked] (Lukas Karlsson)
Date: 3 Jun 1995 17:47:06 GMT

> I am running pine 3.90 under Linux. Mailx works fine just not pine. 

that tends to happen when you already have a pine session running, and
you suspend it, and then try to start another one.  the first session
had control over the file, and then the second one tries to grab it
unsuccessfully, and then neither session has the write access to it.
to fix it, make sure that you have no other pine processes running
when you start a new one.

				- lukas

p.s. - i fixed this problem at my site by making 'pine' a shell script
that checks to see if you are running pine already, it you are, it
tells you, if you are not, it runs 'pine.real'.
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