Subject: I've got open problems with Pine 4.05

From: Matthew Palmer <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 23:04:24 +1100 (EST)

Sorry about the obtuse subject line.  I did have a subject line of 
"Open failed messages - Pine 4.05", but the listproc at uwash rejected it -
said it was "suspicious" - whatever that means.  Any ideas about that?

Anyway, that's not what I want to talk about.

I'm running Pine 4.05 on a Linux 2.0.35 machine, and I can't get it to go
properly anymore.  By "anymore", I mean that it previously worked, then at a
fairly unknown time in the recent past, it failed to work properly and hasn't
since.

There are two system changes which may, possibly, have caused the change.  I
have deleted some symlinks which I believed were redundant - mainly to do with
/var/adm, /usr/adm, some /var/spool/ files (not mail, or anything like that),
some XWindows links (I do not use pine in X), and a few dangling pointers.

The other system change which I can determine may, possibly have caused the
trouble was the addition of another host to the network.  This is a
part-time Linux box, used as a workstation by several members of our group. 
I don't see how this could have caused the problem, but I include it for
completeness.

I first noticed the problem when, in a listing of all files in my home dir
(ls -a ~) I saw several .pine-debug? files.  I understood that these files
referred to error conditions, and so I checked them out.

Imagine my surprise when I found the following in them:

---[START .pine-debug1]---
Debug output of the Pine program (debug=2 debug_imap=0). Version 4.05
Sun Oct 25 15:54:19 1998

reading_pinerc "/usr/lib/pine.conf"
Open failed: No such file or directory
reading_pinerc "/home/mpalmer/.pinerc"
Read 12449 characters:
read_pinerc: pinerc_written = 909289906
reading_pinerc "/usr/lib/pine.conf.fixed"
Open failed: No such file or directory
[remainder removed for brevity]
---[END .pine-debug1]---

It was this Open failed business which rattled me.  I checked to ensure that
the files which were unopened did still in fact exist - as they do.  I
tested opening them with a test program (along the lines of main() {int fd;
fd = open("/usr/lib/pine/pine.conf", O_RDONLY); if (fd < 0) perror("testprog"); else printf("all's
well"); close(fd)}) but that program indicated that there was no problem
opening the file.

Along with this, several options which previously worked no longer operate
correctly.  I am referring specifically to the habit of using the TAB key to
go to the next folder with unread messages.  I cannot remember which option
to use, but I cannot find the correct option, and I cannot make this option
work.

Can anyone suggest a solution to the problem?  I have checked the Pine Info
Center at UWash, but it has no suggestions.

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From: Kenneth Topp <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 10:47:49 -0500 (EST)

Solaris 2.6 pine 4.05 w/ ldap.

when I use imap or /var/mail/inbox there is a race condition when I'm
clearing out the inbox and there is new mail delivered, the
.pine-debug keeps repeating "There is 1 new message".  and pine
hangs.

Do I have any options?  Has anyone else seen this?

Thanks,

[email-masked]