Subject: ADDRESSBOOK UNREADABLE

From: Thom Scott <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 09:19:00 -0400 (EDT)

I recently edited the PINE global addressbook to remove someone and added 
someone else. (I have done this using "vi" many times before with no 
problem.) This time however I am getting the following messages eqach 
time I try to open the global addressbook:
	permission denied - no read access to file
	error opening/creating .globaladdressbook
	.globaladdressbook - cross-device link

If I copy this file over to use as my personal addressbook it works fine.
Any ideas? HELP!

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From: Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 16:29:52 -0700 (PDT)

This probably comes when your pine attempts to create a
.globaladdressbook.lu file in the directory where .globaladdressbook is
located.  If you don't have permission to do that, it will try in /tmp,
but if that is a different file system, you'd get the cross-device link
problem.  If that addressbook is supposed to be globally available,
someone with the necessary permissions should create the
.globaladdressbook.lu file.  They could do that by listing
.globaladdressbook as one of their regular personal address books and then
accessing it (or use the -create_lu command line option).  It could also
be the case that the .lu file already exists but you don't have permission
to read it.  In that case, the permissions need to be fixed.  Thanks.

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