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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news2.acs.oakland.edu!condor.ic.net!news.cic.net!chi-news.cic.net!newspump.sol.net!nntp04.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!news1.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 2.1.5 & Changing Ownership Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 09:24:59 +0000 Organization: Erol's Internet Service Lines: 19 Message-ID: <32201BEB.41C67EA6@www.play-hookey.com> References: <4ve69g$ron@nntp.Stanford.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) Annelise Anderson wrote: > > Since I upgraded to 2.1.5 when I run pine as root the ownership > of .pinerc is changed from my username to root--which means it > doesn't run properly under my own username. Is this a feature? > What to do about it? > To run Pine for mail to your username, first su to that username (no need to use a password if you start as root). I've been using this technique on 2.1R to check my personal mail, messages to root, and messages to my Webmaster alias, without having to log in under multiple names. -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |