On Jan 17, 5:10, Ward Donald Griffiths III wrote:
> I've tried editing my pinerc repeatedly, it always seems to be reset
> the next time I log in.
One of the features of pine is that there can be several configuration
files, including a system-wide one that contains settings which a user can
override in ~/.pinerc, and a separate system-wide one which ~/.pinerc
*won't* override. The intent is that a sysadmin can set defaults in the
first (usually /usr/local/lib/pine.conf), and set fixed values in the
second (usually /usr/local/lib/pine.conf.fixed) -- the sorts of things that
users shouldn't meddle with, like the name of the server, the mail domain,
the operating-dir (which restricts the part of the file structure users can
access) or whether they're allowed to forge cancel messages. It sounds
like your ISP has a somewhat overzealous sysadmin; perhaps they just copied
every setting into pine.conf.fixed.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
Received on Sun Jan 17 1999 - 11:26:02 GMT