Subject: Using Pine as a news reader

From: Walt Smith <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 1997 12:19:48 -0400 (EDT)

I entered the name of Netcom's NNTP server into the configuration as
instructed and got the expected list of newsgroups when I hit L, but when
I attempted to select one, I got an error message...something like "502 -
You aren't permitted to talk".  Where did I go awry here? 

Walt Smith - Raleigh, NC
[email-masked]

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From: Greg Tsigaridas <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 1997 16:04:14 -0400 (EDT)

Hey fellow Pine users,

I want to create a global Pine configuration file to set certain
parameters for all users.  

I followed the documentation, and entered the following command as root:

pine -conf > /usr/local/lib/pine.conf

I then modified the parameters, saved the changes, and logged into Pine as
a normal user.  The options I specified in the global file did not take
effect.  I even set the file permissions to 777.  What did I do wrong?  

Any advice would be appreciated!

Greg Tsigaridas
[email-masked]

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From: Edward M Greshko <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 1997 08:24:12 +0800 (GMT)

> You aren't permitted to talk".  Where did I go awry here? 

You haven't gone awry.

The server is not allowing you to talk to it.  Contact the administrator
of the server and determine the reason.

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From: Rudolf Kompf <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 1997 08:01:30 +0200 (MET DST)

On Thu, 4 Sep 1997, Greg Tsigaridas wrote:

-> Date: Thu, 4 Sep 1997 16:04:14 -0400 (EDT)
-> From: Greg Tsigaridas <[email-masked]>
-> To: Pine Discussion Forum <[email-masked]>
-> Subject: System wide Pine configuration
-> 
-> Hey fellow Pine users,
-> 
-> I want to create a global Pine configuration file to set certain
-> parameters for all users.  
-> 
-> I followed the documentation, and entered the following command as root:
-> 
-> pine -conf > /usr/local/lib/pine.conf
-> 
-> 
-> I then modified the parameters, saved the changes, and logged into Pine as
-> a normal user.  The options I specified in the global file did not take
-> effect.  I even set the file permissions to 777.  What did I do wrong?  
-> 
-> Any advice would be appreciated!
-> 
-> Greg Tsigaridas
-> [email-masked]
-> 
-> 
The the precendence of Pine's configuration files is:
  /usr/local/lib/pine.conf.fixed
  user's  ~/.pinerc
  /usr/local/lib/pine.conf

To set global parameters which the user cannot overwrite you should name
your global configuration file /usr/local/lib/pine.conf.fixed
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