Re: Pine configuration changed
On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Leszek Gerwatowski wrote:
>
> > In the latest (hamm) pine 3.96L-2, I am getting asked (today, March 1)
> > the question:
> >
> > To save disk space, delete old SENT mail folder "sent-mail-jan-1998" ?
> >
> > everytime I execute pine. Formerly it was only asked once at the
> > beginning of each month (maybe it will go away tomorrow!).
> >
> > I checked both ~/.pinerc and /etc/pine.conf and neither has anything
> > specified for pruned-folders. Is there a way to stop this?
>
> I noticed it also. Solution: change owner of your ~/.pinerc file. It's
> owned by root (I don't know why) and it cannot be changed by normal user
> (pine checks date of this file and if it's older than 1 month - it's
> from month different than actual? - it asks about sent-mail* folders).
Thanks, that fixed it. Funny though, it only changed ownership for my
login account, not for the others on my system.
Bob
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