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From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: pine problem
Date: Sat, 08 Jun 1996 22:29:09 -0700
Organization: Erols Internet Services
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Jamie Bowden wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 7 Jun 1996, Ken Bigelow wrote:
> 
> > If you force an override to a common file, customization will become
> > impossible.
> 
> You can setup a common .pinerc in /etc that all users will be bound to,
> but they will be able to change anything not explicitly set there.
> 
> Jamie


Personally, I would prefer to set up a default .pinerc file in everyone's 
home directory. Or, you may be able to do it by adjusting the .mailrc file 
that everyone gets when you add a user. You can adjust any of these dot 
files by going into /usr/share/skel and editing these master files -- 
dot.mailrc, etc. Perhaps if you put a dot.pinerc file in this directory it 
would also get copied out to new users. If I ever allow user access to my 
site I'll have to try that. If it works, there's your default file.

Ken