Subject: have a problem in pine, and think it is a shell problem.

From: dana <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 04:45:52 -0500 (EST)

they worked on the shell last night, and now this morning while i was
reading
news groups in pine, i keep getting this message, what is the chmod
command to fix this problem? think all my files in the home directory are
read only.

         [Can't create backup news state /export/home/dana/.newsrc.old]
Pine finished -- Closed empty folder "INBOX"
 
what does this mean? 

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From: Scott Leibrand <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 14:03:19 -0800 (PST)

I think you'll want to chmod the directory itself as well as that file (if
it exists) to give yourself write access.

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From: dana <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 17:29:29 -0500 (EST)

i think they have the problem fixed now. thanks for all the replys.
i have been on this list for a while, but haven't posted in here. just
learning about pine. 

On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Scott Leibrand wrote:

> Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 14:03:19 -0800 (PST)
> From: Scott Leibrand <[email-masked]>
> To: dana <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Pine Discussion Forum <[email-masked]>
> Subject: Re: have a problem in pine, and think it is a shell problem.
>