Subject: global address books

From: bob <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 10:18:18 -0400 (EDT)

I can't find the answer to this in tech-notes or anything, so I thought I
would ask here. I tried to create a shared global address book for staff,
and it *works*, but every time someone accesses it, they get an error
message saying that they can't create global.addressbooks.lu, so a temp
file will be used.

Why on earth, if the global address book is supposed to be read only,
would pine even be *trying* to create a lookup file for the global address
book? There is already one there, and individual users have no need to
write to it, so why is this happening? Mysterious error messages have a
way of alarming people...

- bob patrick

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From: Florian Kolbe <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 17:35:19 +0200 (CEST)

Hi Bob,

   you need to create the .lu file ONCE. And then pine will be happy.
So you need to recreate this file, every time the global addressbook is
changed.
Try 'man pine' and look for the parameter '-create_lu'.

Cheers,

   Florian

On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, bob wrote:

b> I can't find the answer to this in tech-notes or anything, so I thought I
b> would ask here. I tried to create a shared global address book for staff,
b> and it *works*, but every time someone accesses it, they get an error
b> message saying that they can't create global.addressbooks.lu, so a temp
b> file will be used.
b> 
b> Why on earth, if the global address book is supposed to be read only,
b> would pine even be *trying* to create a lookup file for the global address
b> book? There is already one there, and individual users have no need to
b> write to it, so why is this happening? Mysterious error messages have a
b> way of alarming people...
b> 
b> - bob patrick

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From: bob <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 13:29:37 -0400 (EDT)

The address book problem has gotten even stranger. Someone suggested that
I try the -create_lu option, but the error still occurs. Then I noticed
this: If I launch pine as root at the console, then press A to enter the
address book, then press return to enter the personal address book, the
message I see at the bottom is the same error, only now referring to the
personal address book:
 [Can't write in directory containing .addressbook.lu, using temp file]

But the directory containing root's .addressbook.lu is /, which is
definitely writable by root. Why would this be the case, how is this
related to the global addressbook problem?

Thanks,

- bob patrick