17 Jan
1999
17 Jan
'99
3:26 a.m.
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
17 Jan
17 Jan
6:17 a.m.
Pete Turnbull wrote:
On Jan 17, 5:10, Ward Donald Griffiths III wrote:
Actually, my ISP is a couple of young BCSs who are rather less than
competent as system administrators. After the Cablemodem is installed
I'll set my email account to forward things, and let the account die a
natural death at the end of summer when it's be up for renewal.
For instance, many weekends I can only access through the 14.4 lines,
the others answer, but the modem servers don't connect to the rest.
And this will last _all_ weekend, including both the Christmas and
New Year 3-day weekends. And they have never responded to an email in
comment.
I have offered my services _free_ on several occasions, just to get
their systems configured functionally. For instance, the newsfeed is
crap. For instance, if I go to comp.sys.tandy, I find a total of 15
(that's fifteen, not a typo) messages dated between last October and
last Wednesday. A quick glance at Dejanews would indicate that this
is not a high percentage of the traffic. Sampling shows this to be
the case across the Usenet structure. And while the newsfeed was
nothing spectacular before, the current condition has applied since
they switched from an NFS-mounted news directory to an nntp server.
Again, no response to comments. I will not miss this ISP.
--
Ward Griffiths <mailto:gram@cnct.com> <http://www.cnct.com/home/gram/>
WARNING: The Attorney General has determined that Alcohol, Tobacco,
and Firearms can be hazardous to your health -- and get away with it.
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.
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