Subject: Weird errors in pine

From: "Justin Fairfax" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 13:24:38 -0800

I downloaded the binary files from the FTP provided on your webpage and have
installed pine on the server I admin but I am having problems

System:  SunOS 5.8

The following are the errors I am getting

1.  When i am logged in and inside pine within a few minutes I get the
message that another pine session is accessing my mailbox even though I am
the only one on the system testing out pine and I have ran "ps -e |grep
pine" and found no other PID's running pine

Also whenever I try to send mail I get the message that pine cannot write to
the scratch

 [>Error finishing scratch file: No space left on device<]

then

          [>Write to "sent-mail" FAILED!!!<]

I have a vanilla .pinerc in my home dir and the .conf files are correctly
placed around the server but problems are arising as I said above.

I downloaded and installed pine, imapd, pico, and pilot.  I would try to
compile, but I received some weird errors on compile and things wouldn't
work quite right.

Any suggestions?

Justin

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From: "Karl F. Larsen" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 15:32:41 -0700 (MST)

Justin, if you had errors while compiling yet it completed the compile I
would say you didn't have errors, but warnings. An error usually results
in the compile ending and listing the error.

But I'm using Red Hat Linux 6.1 and version 4.31 compiled without a single
error on this machine. It's a single user computer so I don't even use the
normal ../mail directory and procmail sorts my mail.

I suggest you re-load the source code and when you do the ./configuration
step watch for serious errors in that process.

> installed pine on the server I admin but I am having problems
	I think there are binary files on the pine web site for SunOS but
not sure what version so try compiling on your machine. That is the best
course of action. If it compiles without error your sure those binary
files will run on your machine.

> placed around the server but problems are arising as I said above.
	You might need to change the first 5 or 6 entries in .pinerc so
look at those with care. It sounds like the directory you tried to send
"sent-mail" doesn't exist.

> compile, but I received some weird errors on compile and things wouldn't

Yours Truly,

  	 - Karl F. Larsen, [email-masked]  (505) 524-3303  -

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From: "Ed Greshko" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 08:08:34 +0800

Justin,

> pine" and found no other PID's running pine

It doesn't have to be pine that it accessing your inbox and it doesn't have to
be someone on the same system.  The message is generated when another process
accesses you inbox.  Are you running a PC based email program that is checking
your inbox from time to time?

> Also whenever I try to send mail I get the message that pine cannot write > to
the scratch
>  [>Error finishing scratch file: No space left on device<]

Sounds like your system is running out of "tmp".  What does "df -k" show?

Ed