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Re: Pine configuration changed



On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote:

> 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.
> 

This same way it was on my computer- only my account's .pinerc was
changed. Maybe because it was installed from my account (i was in my home 
and was installed from root's account).

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