Subject: Global Addressbook

From: Dom DiNatale <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 1997 19:24:19 -0400

Hi, I am a student at a college university working in conjunction with 
the director of computer services.  We are looking for a way to create 
a global addressbook for users of Unix Pine.  We want this addressbook 
to have every user on the system, however, we want to be able to allow 
the students/users to keep their existing addressbook. Is there a way 
to do this???

Thanks,
Dom DiNatale
University of New England
Biddeford, ME 04005

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From: Matthew Schinckel <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 14:23:44 +930

> the students/users to keep their existing addressbook. Is there a way 

Dom,

There certainly is.  In the global .pinerc file (I can't remember where 
this is located), set the value global-addressbook=<pathname>.

I presume the director of computer services knows where the global

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From: Cliff Green <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 23:36:28 GMT

> this is located), set the value global-addressbook=<pathname>.

Actually, we've set this up and run into a sporadic problem.  We have a
perl script built to rebuild the global addressbook and the .lu file, (and
then copy it to all of our campus hosts) and have it in a
globally-readable but not writeable directory (so far so good).  However,
some (most?) users get a message from pine, after entering an address in
the To: field of the composer, to the effect that they don't have
write-access to the directory of .globaladdressbook.lu, and so it's
rebuilding it in /tmp for them.

WHY?

Since the global addressbook is, by definition, read-only, and the
tech-notes advise us to rebuild the .lu file when the addressbook is
built, why does pine want to rebuild it *every time*?

Very frustrating.

Personally, I never see it, 'cuz I own the .global addressbook, but I have
to answer the questions.... ;(

c
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