Subject: Pine 3.95 problems

From: "Glenn Allan; Farkas" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 09:52:55 -0500 (EST)

Hi,

I just tried upgrading from pine 3.91 to 3.95 on my Linux (picasso) 
system (basically, just copied the binary into /usr/bin - saving the 3.91 
version, of course).

When I try to start 3.95, I get the message:

"Error creating /var/spool/mail/glenn.lock.847655022.12958.logoplex.com"

It doesn't stop me from viewing messages, but it is fairly annoying.  
More annoying is that I get a messagin when I try to send a message which 
tells me that it can't access sendmail (actually, I believe the message 
was something about being unable to pipe to sendmail...).  Obviously I've 
had to go back to 3.91 for now.

I never got this on 3.91 of pine.  I'm the "system administrator" of this
system, so I can't check with anyone else here.

Can you guys help me out?

Thanks.

Glenn

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From: Jason Englander <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 10:01:27 -0600 (CST)

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> "Error creating /var/spool/mail/glenn.lock.847655022.12958.logoplex.com"

Try setting the /usr/spool/mail directory to rwx by owner, group, and
others, and turn on the sticky bit (sorry, I forget the 'octal' number for
this permission).  I had the same problem - also with Pine 3.95 with Linux. 
I thought it was a new problem with Pine 3.95, but it turns out that 3.95
reports the problem that 3.91 ignored.

That'll probably take care of the sendmail problem too.

  Jason

PS - You might want to run 'chown root.mail mail' just in case

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