Subject: Re: System creating Lookup file /var/tmp/aXXXXXX

From: "Charlene M. Scheib" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 1995 11:02:36 -0500 (EST)

I need assistance with an annoying problem I have been  having.  I 
apologize early on if this has been discussed in the list but I only 
became aware of the pine-info group recently.  I have communicated with 
the BSDUnix people on this problem, read the Pine FAQ, the documentation, 
and the Release and Technical notes.  But I still have not found out how 
to solve the problem.

I am running version 2.0.1 of BSD and am having a peculiar problem with 
pine.  When I reply to a message, the following flashes quickly at the 
bottom of the screen  "Lookup file /var//tmp/aXXXXXXX, doesn't exist, 
creating", where XXXXXXX is a number.  It then allows me to continue to 
respond to the message.  As far as I can tell the recipients are 
receiving the messages.  
 
I can think of nothing unusual except that at one point, after I had 
added only a few users (including mine), I created the file that allows 
the system operater to set pine configuration setting permanently for 
everyone (pine.conf.fixed).  But I had problems when that file existed too (everytime a user logged in it asked if the 
user wanted to move the current months sent-mail to a folder named after 
the previous month.  On the next log in it asked the user if he wanted to 
delete the previous month's sent-mail.  These two messages rotated 
everytime a user logged in). 

So I erased that permanent configuration file 
and created the pine.conf file.  Now I'm wondering if that has anything 
to do with the problem I'm having now.  It seems that I get the message 
only when I reply to a message, not when I compose a new message.  Also, 
it seems that it only happens when I respond to certain users, not 
everyone but I can't track whether I only get the message when responding 
to users whose accounts were created when mine was created or if I also 
get it when I respond to accounts created after the permanent 
configuration file was deleted and replaced with pine.conf.  Or does none 
of this have anything to do with the problem.  I understand that a lookup 
process occurs when an email message is created but I'm not quite sure 
which files are involved.  Could that be the problem?
 
The files the message says are being created are in fact created by the 
system in /var/tmp.  However, I am not listed as the owner of the file.  
Other users are.
 
Is this a serious problem?  And how can I correct it?
 
Charlene M. Scheib
Carbon Lehigh IU 21
4750 Orchard Rd.
Schnecksville, PA  18078
[email-masked] 
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